Tamariz, Monica

English

This paper presents a Darwinian framework to study culture that formalises interactions between public and private, ontogenetic and phylogenetic as well as individual and social aspects of cultural evolution and transmission. It also compares and contrasts evolutionary milestones in the emergence of culture with major transitions in the evolution of life. We define two related processes in the evolution of culture: the cumulative encoding of innovative information into public culture and the ontogenetic development of cultural competences that allow humans to access and use that information. We claim that the capacity to create, learn and use symbols is a key factor underlying those processes

Heriot Watt Pure

Evolutionary Transitions and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Biology and in Culture

Edinburgh Research Explorer

An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge MA:

Coevolution: Genes, culture and human diversity. Stanford CA:

Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge MA:

Cultural transmission and evolution: A quantitative approach.

Culture and the evolutionary process. Chicago:

Darwin’s dangerous idea.

Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach.

Function, selection, and innateness.

Genes, mind and culture: The coevolutionary process. Cambridge MA:

Interpreting the universal philogenetic tree.

Is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of 'The Origin of Species’.

Language as an evolutionary system.

Natural selection: Domains, levels, and challenges.

Natural-born cyborgs: Minds, technologies and the future of human intelligence.

Niche construction: The neglected process in evolution.

On the evolution of cells.

Reference: The linguistic essential.

Science as process: An evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science. Chicago:

Synthesizing life.

The ecology of language evolution. Cambridge MA:

The electric meme.

The evolution of cultural diversity: A phylogenetic approach.

The Firm as an interactor: Firms as vehicles for habits and routines.

The inferential transmission of meaning.

The major transitions in evolution.

The origin of species by means of natural selection. London: John Murray.

The origins of meaning (Vol. 1 of Languge in the light of evolution).

The prehistory of the mind.

The Quark and the Jaguar.

The selfish gene.

The symbolic species: the coevolution of language and the human brain.

The theory of economic development: An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle. Cambridge MA:

The universal ancestor.