The evolution of cultural diversity : a phylogenetic approach / edited by Ruth Mace, Clare J. Holden and Stephen Shennan.

The evolution of cultural diversity :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315418612 (e-book : PDF)
9781315418582 (e-book: Mobi)
9781315418599 (e-book: ePub)
9781598742138 (hardback)
9781598742169 (paperback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (x, 291 pages)
Genel Not
First published 2005 by Left Coast Press.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction : a phylogenetic approach to the evolution of cultural diversity / Ruth Mace -- 2. Introduction to part I: how tree-like is cultural evolution? / Clare J. Holden and Stephen Shennan -- 3. Testing population dispersal hypotheses : Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees and austronesian languages / Simon J. Greenhill and Russell D. Gray -- 4. Comparison of maximum parsimony and Bayesian Bantu language trees / Clare J. Holden, Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel -- 5. Untangling our past : languages, trees, splits and networks / David Bryant, Flavia Filimon and Russell D. Gray -- 6. Cultural phylogenetic hypotheses in archaeology : some fundamental issues / Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman -- 7. Phylogenesis versus ethnogenesis in Turkmen cultural evolution / Mark Collard and Jamshid Tehrani -- 8. Investigating processes of cultural evolution on the North Coast of New Guinea with multivariate and cladistic analyses / Stephen Shennan and Mark Collard -- 9. Cultural transmission in indigenous California / Peter Jordan and Stephen Shennan -- 10. Introduction to part II: On the use of phylogenetic comparative methods to test co-evolutionary hypotheses across cultures / Ruth Mace -- 11. The evolution of human sex ratio at birth : a bio-cultural analysis / Ruth Mace and Fiona Jordan -- 12. 'The cow is the enemy of matriliny' : using phylogenetic methods to investigate cultural evolution in Africa / Clare J. Holden and Ruth Mace -- 13. Bayesian estimation of correlated evolution across cultures : a case study of marriage systems and wealth transfer at marriage / Mark Pagel and Andrew Meade.
Konu
Social evolution.
Phylogeny.
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