Editor’s Introduction:

Stefan Linquist, Contemporary theories of cultural evolution.

Chapter 1: Theoretical background

Cloak, F.T. Jr (1975), Is a cultural ethology possible? Human Ecology. 3, 161-82.

Cavalli-Sfroza, Luigi (1986), Cultural Evolution.  American Zoologist, 26(3): 845-855. 

Durham, William H. (1990), Advances in evolutionary culture theory. Annual Review of Anthropology, 19: 187-210.

Fracchia, Joseph and Richard Lewontin (1999), Does culture evolve? History and Theory 38(4): 187-210.
 

Chapter 2: The Phylogenetic approach to culture

Mace, Ruth; Mark Pagel; John R. Bowen; Biman Kumar Das Gupta;  Keith F. Otterbein; Mark Ridley; Thomas Schweizer, Eckart Voland (1994), The comparative method in anthropology. Current Anthropology, 35(5): 549-564. 

Moore, John H. (1994), Putting anthropology back together again: The ethnogenetic critique of cladistic theory. American Anthropologist 96(4): 925-948.

Gray, Russell; Simon Greenhill and Robert Ross (2007), The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory, 2(4): 360–375.

Chapter 3: Memetics

Dennett, Daniel (1990), Memes and the exploitation of imagination. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 48: 127-135.

Blackmore, Susan (2001) Evolution and memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device. Cybernetics and Systems, 32: 225-255. 

Jeffreys, Mark (2000), The meme metaphor. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 43(2): 227-242.

Atran, Scott (2001), The trouble with memes: inference versus imitation in cultural creation. Human Nature, 12(4), 351–381.

Sterelny, Kim (2006), Memes Revisited. British Journal for the Philosphy of Science, 57(1): 145-165.

 

Chapter 4: Dual inheritance theory and niche construction

Boyd, Robert and Peter J. Richerson (1987), The evolution of ethnic markers. Cultural Anthropology, 2 (1): 65-79. 

Henrich, Joseph and Robert Boyd (2002), On modeling cognition and culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations. Journal of Cognition and Culture 2:87-112.

Sterelny, Kim (2006), The evolution and evolvability of culture. Mind & Language, 21(2): 137–165. 

Laland, Kevin, John Odling-Smee and Marcus Feldman (2000), Niche construction, biological evolution and cultural change. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23: 131–146; 172-175.

Chapter 5: Psychological mechanisms

Boehm, Christopher (1978), Rational Preselection from Hamadryas to Homo Sapiens: The Place of Decisions in Adaptive Process.  American Anthropologist, 80 (2): 265-296 

Henrich, Joseph and Francisco Gil-White (2001), The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission.  Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 22(3): 165 – 196.

Sperber, D., & Hirschfeld, L. (2004), The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8(1):40–46.

Laureano, Castro and Miguel A. Toro (2004), The evolution of culture: From primate social learning to human culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 101(27): 10235-10240.

 

Chapter 6: Culture in non-human animals

Sapolsky, Robert (2006), Culture in animals: The case of a non-human primate culture of low aggression and high affiliation.  Social Forces, 85(1): 217-233. 

Laland, Kevin and Vincent Janik (2006), The animal cultures debate. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21(10): 542-547.

Whiten, Andrew; Victoria Horner; Carla Litchfield and Sarah Marshall-Pescini (2004), How do apes ape?  Learning & Behavior, 32 (1): 36-52.

Michael Tomasello (2001), Cultural Transmission A View from Chimpanzees and Human Infants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 32(2): 135-146.