Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

By Kevin N. Laland, Gillian R. Brown. 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI (2003, background): “…that some synthesis of sociobiology, gene–culture coevolution and memetics, along with related Darwinian models such as behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology, will some day provide a widely accepted theory or mechanism for cultural evolution (Lalande & Brown 2002; Segerstrale 2000).”
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, background): “The nature and extent of these criticisms are beyond the scope of this article and are addressed in several prominent recent reviews (e.g., Broughton and O’Connell 1999; Laland and Brown 2002; Smith 1991, 2000).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, methodology): “However, the same putative “criticism” could equally be levelled at modern concepts of the gene (Laland & Brown 2002).”
The reasoning skills and thinking dispositions of problem gamblers: a dual‐process taxonomy (2007, background): “…mindware is controversial (see Aunger, 2000) many theorists speculating on the properties of cultural replication would admit such a possibility (Aunger, 2002; Blackmore, 1999; Dawkins, 1993; Dennett, 1991, 2006; Distin, 2005; Laland & Brown, 2002; Richerson & Boyd, 2005; Stanovich, 2004).”
Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “Integrating theories of culture and behavior with evolutionary theory has proven difficult (Laland & Brown, 2002).”
A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication (2011, background): “…record as the ‘‘broad-spectrum revolution’’ (Zeder 2012), represents an extended phase of wide-ranging exploration, experimentation, and social learning (Laland and Brown 2002) by small-scale human societies as they comprehensively ‘‘auditioned’’ component species of these unusually rich biotic…”