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The Gentle Bushman and the Tame Neanderthal

The 'ABC of Modernity' Reconsidered

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
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ISBN/EAN: 9786138830320
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 140
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Beschreibung

By considering cumulative cultural evolution the natural choice of all cognitively modern humans, gene-culture coevolution theory implies that the ratcheting of innovations is the only index of progress. In the modelling of the theory the stress is placed on social complexity, the absence of which would render small and isolated populations vulnerable to the treadmill effect, the inevitable consequence of impaired social learning. However, the anthropological literature documents isolated hunter-gatherer groups that have developed intricate exchange networks that do not necessarily rely on technological innovation and function only in low demographic settings. Not only that the biases upon which transmission depends in cumulative cultural evolutionprestige, skills, successare unknown, but certain leveling mechanisms inhibit these very parameters and thus, no cultural models can rise to prominence. Contrary to the predictions of the theory, these societies do not seem to be plagued by cultural loss and, instead of hopelessly running the treadmill and living in poverty, they have developed egalitarian and, to an extent, affluent societies.

Autorenportrait

George F. Steiner's training in Quaternary Geography (MA) exposed him to Pleistocene Archaeology, which became his major field of research. He is a regular contributor to various scientific journals and the author of 'Neanderthals in Plato's Cave,' a book that explores the most recent developments in this complex field.

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