Perspectives in Ethology: Evolution, Culture, and BehaviorNicholas S. Thompson, François Tonneau Springer Science & Business Media, 2001 M01 31 - 318 páginas The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and evolutionary theorists together to reexamine this important relation. With two exceptions (the essays by Brown and Eldredge), all of the present essays were originally presented at the Fifth Biannual Symposium on the Science of Behavior held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in February 1998. The volume opens with the problem of the origins of culture, tackled from two different viewpoints by Richerson and Boyd, and Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado, respectively. Richerson and Boyd analyze the possible relations between climatic change in the Pleistocene and the evo lution of social learning, evaluating the boundary conditions under which social learning could increase fitness and contribute to culture. Lancaster, Kaplan, Hill, and Hurtado examine how a shift in the diet of the genus Homo toward difficult-to-acquire food could have determined (or coe volved with) unique features of the human life cycle. These two essays illus trate how techniques that range from computer modeling to comparative behavioral analysis, and that make use of a wide range of data, can be used for drawing inferences about past selection pressures. As culture evolves, it must somehow find its place within (and also affect) a complex hierarchy of behavioral and biological factors. |
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BUILT FOR SPEED PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE VARIATION AND THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN CULTURE | 1 |
2 CULTURE AS AN ADAPTATION TO VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS | 4 |
22 Simple Models of Social Learning | 5 |
3 PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE DETERIORATION | 13 |
4 BRAIN SIZE EVOLUTION IN THE PLEISTOCENE | 17 |
5 LARGE BRAINS FOR WHAT? | 19 |
6 HUMAN CULTURE IS DERIVED | 22 |
7 WHY IS CUMULATIVE CULTURAL EVOLUTION RARE? | 25 |
23 Selective Processes Versus Processes of Selection | 163 |
24 Selection and Drift | 165 |
3 EVALUATING SKINNERS SELECTION ANALOGY | 167 |
31 Further Objections | 168 |
32 The Analogy at the Neural Level | 170 |
4 CONCLUSION | 173 |
REFERENCES | 175 |
BEING CONCRETE ABOUT CULTURE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION | 179 |
8 CONCLUSION | 35 |
REFERENCES | 38 |
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE HISTORY INTELLIGENCE AND DIET AMONG CHIMPANZEES AND HUMAN FORAGERS | 45 |
2 CHIMPANZEE CULTURE AND HOMINID EVOLUTION | 47 |
3 LIFE HISTORIES OF HUMAN FORAGERS AND WILD CHIMPANZEES | 49 |
CHIMPANZEES AND HUMAN FORAGERS | 53 |
42 Difficulty of Acquisition | 57 |
43 The Age and Sex Patterning of Food Acquisition and Consumption among Chimpanzees and Humans | 58 |
44 The Effect of Mens Surplus Energy Production on the Reproductive Lives of Women | 62 |
5 CONCLUSIONS | 64 |
REFERENCES | 66 |
CULTURES AS SUPRAORGANISMAL WHOLES | 71 |
2 INDIVIDUALITY | 73 |
3 HIERARCHY | 74 |
4 ABSTRACTION | 76 |
5 LANGUAGES | 77 |
6 A PROCESSUAL SOLUTION | 79 |
7 THE CULTURE OF SCIENCE | 82 |
REFERENCES | 84 |
NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND GENECULTURE COEVOLUTION AN EVOLUTIONARY BASIS FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES | 87 |
2 BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION | 89 |
21 Natural Selection and Niche Construction | 92 |
22 Amplification | 94 |
23 Modelling Niche Construction | 95 |
3 IMPLICATIONS OF NICHE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES | 97 |
31 Beyond Sociobiology | 99 |
32 The Human Past and the Human Future | 104 |
REFERENCES | 107 |
BIOLOGICAL AND MATERIAL CULTURAL EVOLUTION ARE THERE ANY TRUE PARALLELS? | 111 |
2 THE INFORMATIONAL BASIS OF BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION | 113 |
21 Implications for Evolutionary Rates | 114 |
22 Implications for Evolutionary Trees | 116 |
23 Implications for Classification | 122 |
3 ON NAIVE SELECTIONISM IN THE BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONARY DOMAIN | 125 |
31 Evolutionary and Economic Hierarchies | 127 |
32 Core Patterns in Biological Evolution | 128 |
33 Environmental Disturbances and the Core Patterns | 129 |
4 EVOLUTION OF MATERIAL CULTURAL INFORMATION | 132 |
42 Economic Hierarchies | 134 |
43 Core Patterns in Design Evolution | 137 |
COORDINATED STASISTURNOVER PULSE OF MATERIAL CULTURAL INFORMATION | 142 |
52 18601900 The Great Age of Victorian Cornets | 143 |
53 19001920 The New Era | 144 |
54 19201985 Comet Eclipse | 145 |
55 1985 Onwards Nostalgia | 148 |
REFERENCES | 149 |
PITFALLS OF BEHAVIORAL SELECTIONISM | 153 |
11 Development of an Analogy | 155 |
12 Psychology in Disarray | 157 |
13 Correspondence of Components | 158 |
2 SELECTION PROCESSES | 159 |
21 Selection Implies Sorting | 160 |
22 Implications for Temporal Change | 162 |
2 INTRODUCTION | 180 |
31 Memes and Other Abstractions | 181 |
32 Proposal | 184 |
33 Behavioral Units | 185 |
4 TRANSMISSION | 186 |
41 Cultural Contingencies | 188 |
42 Genes and Culture | 190 |
43 RuleFollowing | 192 |
44 RuleGiving | 196 |
46 RuleGiving and Altruism | 200 |
47 Units Transmission and Selection | 201 |
5 SELECTION | 202 |
52 Devices and Modules | 204 |
6 CONCLUSION | 206 |
REFERENCES | 208 |
INTENTIONALITY IS THE MARK OF THE VITAL | 211 |
2 THE PROBLEM OF INTENTIONALITY | 212 |
3 INTENTION AND DESIGN | 215 |
31 What Is Natural Design? | 216 |
32 How Is Natural Design to Be Explained? | 217 |
4 CONTROL SYSTEMS AND INTENTIONALITY | 219 |
5 SO WHAT IF LNTENTIONALITY IS AN OBJECTIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS? | 223 |
REFERENCES | 225 |
EVOLUTIONARY MODELS OF MUSIC FROM SEXUAL SELECTION TO GROUP SELECTION | 229 |
11 Evolutionary Musicology | 231 |
12 Sociomusicology | 234 |
MUSICMAKING AS A COURTSHIP DISPLAY | 238 |
22 Darwin 1871 | 239 |
23 Miller 2000 | 240 |
24 Problems with the Sexual Selection Argument | 242 |
MUSICMAKING AS A COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY | 249 |
32 Music as a GroupLevel Adaptation | 255 |
4 MUSIC AS RITUALS REWARD SYSTEM | 271 |
5 CONCLUSION | 273 |
REFERENCES | 275 |
BIOLOGY CULTURE RELIGION | 281 |
2 THE ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS | 284 |
22 Why Believe? | 285 |
23 The Nature of Deities | 288 |
3 NARRATIVES | 289 |
4 RITUAL | 290 |
41 Why Do People Take Part in Rituals? | 291 |
42 The Consequences of Ritual | 292 |
43 Prayer and Sacrifice | 293 |
44 The Forms of Ritual | 294 |
5 CODES OF CONDUCT | 295 |
6 RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE | 300 |
7 SOCIAL ASPECTS | 301 |
9 CONCLUSION | 302 |
10 NOTES | 303 |
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