Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeI. Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory.- Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies: System, Process, and Pattern.- Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory.- “The Multiplication of Forms:” Bering Strait Harpoon Heads as a Demic and Macroevolutionary Proxy.- II. Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change.- The Emergence of New Socioeconomic Strategies in the Middle and Late Holocene Pacific Northwest Region of North America.- Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation: The Zapotec Case.- Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of Agriculture: The Value of Co-opted Models of Evolution in the Study of Culture Change.- III. Cultural Diversification, Stasis and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes.- A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America.- Cultural Stasis and Change in Northern North America: A Macroevolutionary Perspective.- Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East.- IV. Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology.- Macroevolutionary Theory and Archaeology: Is There a Big Picture?.- Material Cultural Macroevolution.
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Inhalt
Introduction.- Part 1: Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory. Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies. Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory. "The Multiplication of Forms."- Part 2: Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change. The Emergence of New Socio-Economic Strategies in the Middle and Late Holocene Pacific Northwest Region of North America. Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation. The Neolithic Macro-(R)evolution.- Part 3: Cultural Diversification, Stasis, and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes. A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America. Cultural Stasis in Northern North America. Niche Construction, Macroevolution and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East.- Part 4: Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology - Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology. Material Cultural Macroevolution.
