| Contents |
Introduction, Developing a scientific paradigm for understanding culture / Melissa J. Brown -- Some kinds of causal powers that make up culture / Roy D'Andrade -- Culture in evolution : toward an integration of chimpanzee and human cultures / Christophe Boesch -- Dissent with modification : cultural evolution and social niche construction / Marcus W. Feldman -- Cultural evolution : accomplishments and future prospects / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Conditions for the spread of culturally transmitted costly punishment of sib mating / Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- Sexually transmitted infections as biomarkers of cultural behavior / James Holland Jones -- When culture affects behavior : a new look at kuru / William H. Durham -- When culture does not affect behavior : the structural basis of ethnic identity / Melissa J. Brown -- Cultural species / Joseph Henrich -- Culture matters : inferences from comparative behavioral experiments and evolutionary models / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Cultural evolution and uxorilocal marriage in China : a second opinion / Arthur P. Wolf -- When theory is data : coming to terms with "culture" as a way of life / Gregory Starrett -- Studying "culture" scientifically as an oxymoron : the interesting question is why people don't accept this / Robert Borofsky -- Epilogue, Future considerations / Melissa J. Brown. |
