The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection

by W.G. Runciman

Book Overview

In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521136148
• ISBN13: 9780521136143
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"