Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology
dc.contributor.author | Flinn, Mark V. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Alexander, Richard D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:51:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:51:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Flinn, Mark V.; Alexander, Richard D.; (1982). "Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology." Human Ecology 10(3): 383-400. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44477> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0300-7839 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-9915 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44477 | |
dc.description.abstract | We believe that a useful, complete theory of culture is simpler than the dichotomies promoted by the coevolutionary approach suggest. Culture can be regarded as an aspect of the environment into which each human is born and must succeed or fail, developed gradually by the succession of humans who have lived throughout history. We hypothesize that culture results from the inclusive-fitness-maximizing efforts of all humans who have lived. We think the evidence suggests that cultural traits are, in general, vehicles of genic survival, and that the heritability of cultural traits depends on the judgments (conscious and unconscious) of individuals with regard to their effects on the individual's inclusive fitness. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1151137 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology/Archaeometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environmental Management | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.title | Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44477/1/10745_2005_Article_BF01531192.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01531192 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Human Ecology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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