PPT-Cultural Evolution

Cultural Evolution This is the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation Knowledge is stored in the memory and in written or pictorial form Culture is the verbal and written transmission of ideas beliefs customs and values of individuals and societies. Leit Harrison G Pope Jr 23 and James J Gray Department of Psychology American University Washington DC Biological Psychiatry Laboratory McLean Hospital Belmont Massachusetts Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Accep T Fessler Anne C Pisor Carlos David Navarrete Department of Anthropology and Center for Behavior Evolution and Culture University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles California Unite d States of America Department of Anthropology University of C Furthermore at least orally human cul tures preserve historical record imaginative or real couched in a human language The past pervades human consciousness to some degree even in the simplest societies and discussions of past events narrating somet Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/aftexts.html#title. Diet and Evolution:. What Did Hominines Eat?. ca. . 7 – 1.8 . mya. . Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. u. se your up/down arrow keys and/or . Jordan Zlatev. Lecture 9. Controversies and hypotheses. 1. Controversies. What is language (again!)?. When language evolved?. How it evolved. ?. Why it evolved. ? . (Lecture 10). Can language evolution be divided in “stages”? Which? . 1. Female . Choice. . 2. Whale . Song. . . 3. Tool . F. abrication by Crows. 1. Social Learning: Required for Culture. Female Choice: interaction of cultural evolution. . and biological evolution. Anthropological Theory. Anthropological Theory . More than 2,000 societies have been described in anthropological literature. Theoretical orientation: . general attitude about how cultural phenomena are to be explained; influences what aspects of life observer focuses on. Recall . ANTHROPOLOGY . Definition:. The scientific study of hominids and human culture over time . Focus on:. On hominids/humans as members of a species or cultural group. On humankind as a species, throughout time; . Peter J. Richerson. With thanks to Robert Boyd. Talk to Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Cooperation and Human Systems Design, March 26, 2009. Cultural Evolution Is Darwinian: Culture is a population level process. Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/aftexts.html#title. Diet and Evolution:. What Did Hominines Eat?. ca. . 7 – 1.8 . mya. . Tim Roufs. © 2010-2014. u. se your up/down arrow keys and/or . . perspectives. on cultural . heritage. Aims. and . Topics. To . consider. and . examine. the . most. . recent. . development. of . juridical. . doctrine. . about. cultural . heritage. Description and Consequences. Supplementary Notes and Basic Definitions. Paul Ballonoff. 1,. *, . 1. Ballonoff Consulting, Paul@Ballonoff.net; . *. Corresponding author: Paul@Ballonoff.net. 1. Results and Discussion. HSP3C. Ms. . Maharaj. What is Anthropology?. . Anthropology is the broad study of . humankind. . around the world and throughout time. . . It is concerned with both the . biological and the cultural aspects of humans.. Murmu. Associate Professor. Dept. . of . Anthropology, . Utkal. University. NEO-EVOLUTIONARY SCHOOLS . Emerged in Early 20. th. century. Universal. Evolutionism. Multilinear. Evolutionism. V. GORDON CHILDE .