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Origin, Human beings, Social evolution, Language and languages, Human evolution

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: “Small Consequences of One General Law”
Page 1
Part I. The inheritance of cultural information
2. What Is Information?
Page 11
3. How Is Information Inherited?
Page 25
Part II. The Inheritance Of Cultural Information: Natural Language
4. Natural Language and Culture: The Biological Building Blocks
Page 49
5. How Did Natural Language Evolve?
Page 62
6. Language, Thought and Culture
Page 78
Part III. The Inheritance Of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language
7. How Did Artefactual Language Evolve?
Page 89
8. Artefactual Language, Representation and Culture
Page 107
9. Money: An Artefactual Language
Page 126
10. Money: The Explanatory Power of Artefactual Languages
Page 146
Part IV. The Receivers Of Cultural Information
11. How Does Human Diversity Affect Cultural Evolution?
Page 169
Part V. The Expression Of Cultural Information
12. Aspects of the Cultural Ecology
Page 185
13. Patterns of Cultural Taxonomy
Page 200
14. Conclusion: A Representational Understanding of Cultural Evolution
Page 220
Appendix. What about Memetics?
Page 231
Acknowledgements
Page 235
Bibliography
Page 239
Index
Page 263

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