The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution: The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors (Hardcover, 2022)

- Introduction. - The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory in Biology. - Borrowing from Biology.- That Complex Whole: The Structure of Culture and the Kinds of Cultural and Culturally Structured Entities. - That Complex Whole and Its Evolutionary Dynamics.- The Deaths and Births of Cultural Systems. - Chance, Agency, and Loaded Dice.- Proximate Causation and Pattern Part I: The Paths to Food production.- Proximate Causation and Pattern Part II: The Paths to Social Complexity.- Agency, Proximate Causation, and the Sloshing Bucket.