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R. Alexander Bentley

The Acceleration of Cultural Change

From Ancestors to Algorithms

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How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and playing Minecraft. Only the collective acceleration of cultural and technological evolution explains this development. The evolutionary psychology of individuals—the drive for food and sex”—explains some of our current habits, but our evolutionary success, Alex Bentley… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: O'Brien, Michael J.
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-34306-0
  • EAN: 9780262343060
  • Produktnummer: 34355020
  • Verlag: MIT Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'235 KB
  • Abbildungen: 15 B&W ILLUS.

Über den Autor


R. Alexander Bentley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee and coauthor of I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms (both published by the MIT Press).Michael J. O'Brien is Provost and Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the coauthor of I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms (both published by the MIT Press).An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership, all published by The MIT Press.

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