Cultural evolution : how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences / Alex Mesoudi.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A cultural species -- Cultural evolution -- Cultural microevolution -- Cultural macroevolution i: archaeology and anthropology -- Cultural macroevolution ii: language and history -- Evolutionary experiments: cultural evolution in the lab -- Evolutionary ethnography: cultural evolution in the field -- Evolutionary economics: cultural evolution in the marketplace -- Culture in nonhuman species -- Toward an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences.