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- Contributors
- Philosophical issues
- Evolutionary psychology in the round
- The power of culture
- Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective
- Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology
- Group-level evolutionary processes
- The comparative approach
- Homologizing the mind
- Social knowledge in primates
- Social cognition in non-primates
- Culture in primates and other animals
- Empathy, sympathy, and prosocial preferences in primates
- Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition
- Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system
- The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain
- Neural pathways of social cognition
- Mirror neurons and social cognition
- Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart
- Development
- The evolution of empathizing and systemizing: assortative mating of two strong systemizers and the cause of autism
- The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation
- Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies
- Parental impacts on development: How proximate factors mediate adaptive plans
- Evolution of stress response to social threat
- Birth order and sibling competition
- Mating, Reproduction and Life History
- Body Odours and Body Odour Preferences in Humans
- Reproductive strategies and tactics
- Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection
- Sex differences in aggression
- The evolutionary ecology of human family size
- Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans
- Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies
- Risk and decision-making
- The Self and the Social World
- Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems
- Kinship and descent
- Individual differences
- Human evolution and social cognition
- Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective
- Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies
- Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups
- Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruism
- Cultural Evolution
- Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution
- Modelling cultural evolution
- Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution
- Memes
- Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans
- The evolution of religion
- Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama
- Music and cognitive evolution
- The evolution of language
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Mankind's natural place is in culture, and culture is a part of human biology because it is biology that gives humans the ability to enter into culture. For this reason any contrast or opposition that is made between biology and culture, or between genes and culture, or between evolution and culture, is an expression of a wholly wrong conception of the causal structure of the world. Culture is not an entity whose causal force can be placed in a different physical (or metaphysical) realm from the causal forces exerted by genes, or the concatenation of natural selection pressures that have moulded human evolution. The human capacity for culture is a product of evolution and is as natural as having a bipedal gait or an opposable thumb.
Keywords: culture, human, biology, genes, evolution, causal force
Professor Henry Plotkin, Department of Psychology, University College London
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- [UNTITLED]
- Contributors
- Philosophical issues
- Evolutionary psychology in the round
- The power of culture
- Evolution and psychology in philosophical perspective
- Niche construction, human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology
- Group-level evolutionary processes
- The comparative approach
- Homologizing the mind
- Social knowledge in primates
- Social cognition in non-primates
- Culture in primates and other animals
- Empathy, sympathy, and prosocial preferences in primates
- Evolutionary neurobiology and cognition
- Evolution of the social brain as a distributed neural system
- The neuroevolutionary and neuroaffective psychobiology of the prosocial brain
- Neural pathways of social cognition
- Mirror neurons and social cognition
- Mechanisms of ecological rationality: heuristics and environments that make us smart
- Development
- The evolution of empathizing and systemizing: assortative mating of two strong systemizers and the cause of autism
- The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation
- Childhood experiences and reproductive strategies
- Parental impacts on development: How proximate factors mediate adaptive plans
- Evolution of stress response to social threat
- Birth order and sibling competition
- Mating, Reproduction and Life History
- Body Odours and Body Odour Preferences in Humans
- Reproductive strategies and tactics
- Symmetry, attractiveness and sexual selection
- Sex differences in aggression
- The evolutionary ecology of human family size
- Life-history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans
- Evolutionary psychology meets history: insights into human nature through family reconstitution studies
- Risk and decision-making
- The Self and the Social World
- Ecological and socio-cultural impacts on mating and marriage systems
- Kinship and descent
- Individual differences
- Human evolution and social cognition
- Temporal knowledge and autobiographical memory: an evolutionary perspective
- Shamans, yogins and indigenous psychologies
- Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups
- Ethnic nepotism as heuristic: risky transactions and public altruism
- Cultural Evolution
- Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution
- Modelling cultural evolution
- Evolutionary perspectives in archaeology: from culture history to cultural evolution
- Memes
- Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans
- The evolution of religion
- Evolutionary approaches to literature and drama
- Music and cognitive evolution
- The evolution of language
- Index
