Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1 A Cultural Species 1
6. 2 Cultural Evolution 25
7. 3 Cultural Microevolution 55
8. 4 Cultural Macroevolution I: Archaeology and Anthropology 85
9. 5 Cultural Macroevolution II: Language and History 111
10. 6 Evolutionary Experiments: Cultural Evolution in the Lab 135
11. 7 Evolutionary Ethnography: Cultural Evolution in the Field 161
12. 8 Evolutionary Economics: Cultural Evolution in the Marketplace 177
13. 9 Culture in Nonhuman Species 189
14. 10 Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis for the Social Sciences 205
15. Notes 221
16. Works Cited 239
17. Index 257