The Nature of Culture
Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Miriam N. Haidle, Nocholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus (Eds.)
The Nature of Culture Springer
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2016
This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography are discussed; and the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in human evolution are traced in the archaeological record.