We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue
that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with …

The term chiefdom is used to characterize social complexity in stateless societies. Despite
pointed criticism of evolutionary typologies, the chiefdom and related formulations provide a …

Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs
and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch's groundbreaking examination of …

Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological
anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist …

Abstract Niche Construction Theory (NCT) provides a powerful conceptual framework for
understanding how and why humans and target species entered into domesticatory …

" Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the
economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze …

But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready made solutions for all time is
not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish in the present …

Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution
in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in …

This study of the hunters of the settlement of Inukjuak (Inujjuaq) in Ungava, northern
Quebec, evaluates the utility of models drawn from evolutionary ecology, including optimal …

In view of accelerating biological and cultural landscape degradation, a better
understanding of interactions between landscapes and the cultural forces driving them is …