Using at least two examples from the literature, discuss how human evolution is related to human culture.
social sciences
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Topic: Using at least two examples from the
literature, discuss how human evolution is related to human culture.
The assignment has to have Harvard style referencing
Some readings that can be
referred to:
Ridley, Matt. 2003. Nature
Via Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human. Fourth
Estate: London. Chapter 1: The Paragon of Animals. Ridley2003-1.pdf
Richerson, Peter & Robert
Boyd. 2006. Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed
Human Evolution. University of Chicago: Chicago. Chapter 1:
Culture is Essential. RichersonBoyd2005-1.pdf
Wrangham, Richard. 2009. Catching
Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile: London.
Introduction: The Cooking Hypothesis. Wrangham2010-1.pdf
Dunbar, Robin, Chris Knight &
Camilla Power (eds). 1999. The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary
View. Edinburgh University: Edinburgh.
Goodman, Alan, Deborah Heath
& M. Susan Lindee (eds). 2003. Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and
Science Beyond the Two Culture Divide. University of
California: Berkeley.
Henrich, J., &
McElreath, R. (2007). Dual Inheritance Theory: The Evolution of Human Cultural
Capacities and Cultural Evolution. In R. Dunbar & L. Barrett (Eds.), Oxford
Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 555–570). Oxford University
Press.
Henrich, Joseph. 2015. The
Secret of our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating
Our Species and Making Us Smarter. Princeton University:
Princeton NJ. (Available online through QCAT).
Ingold, Tim. 1986. Evolution
and Social Life. CUP: Cambridge.
Richerson, Peter & Robert
Boyd. 2004. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures. OUP:
New York.
Richerson, Peter & Robert
Boyd. 2006. Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed
Human Evolution. University of Chicago: Chicago.
Stocking, George. 1969. Race,
Culture and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology. Free
Press: New York.
White, Leslie. 1959. The
Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilizaton to the Fall of Rome. McGraw
Hill: New York. (Available online through QCAT).
