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Introduction: "Small Consequences of One General Law" | p. 1 |
The Inheritance of Cultural Information | |
What Is Information? | p. 11 |
How Is Information Inherited? | p. 25 |
The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Natural Language | |
Natural Language and Culture: The Biological Building Blocks | p. 49 |
How Did Natural Language Evolve? | p. 62 |
Language, Thought and Culture | p. 78 |
The Inheritance of Cultural Information: Artefactual Language | |
How Did Artefactual Language Evolve? | p. 89 |
Artefactual Language, Representation and Culture | p. 107 |
Money: An Artefactual Language | p. 126 |
Money: The Explanatory Power of Artefactual Languages | p. 146 |
The Receivers of Cultural Information | |
How Does Human Diversity Affect Cultural Evolution? | p. 169 |
The Expression of Cultural Information | |
Aspects of the Cultural Ecology | p. 185 |
Patterns of Cultural Taxonomy | p. 200 |
Conclusion: A Representational Understanding of Cultural Evolution | p. 220 |
Appendix: What about Memetics? | p. 231 |
Acknowledgements | p. 235 |
Bibliography | p. 239 |
Index | p. 263 |
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