Title:	Macroevolution in Human Prehistory
Authors:	Marie Prentiss, Anna Ian Kuijt James C. Chatters
Keywords:	Human Prehistory
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Indeed, it is now becoming clear that the world’s cultures may even derive from a specific common ancestor, perhaps originating in the vicinity of the Upper Nile in East Africa over 50,000 years ago (Bar-Yosef 1998). If this is the case, cultures have since diversified on a scale eclipsed only by the array of biological species. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunter-gatherers that in many ways probably charactorize that original culture, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high-density urban settlements and complex polities that characterize much of today’s world. A major implication is that cultural evolution was partially (if not substantially), as originally argued by Darwin (1859) for biological species, a historically branching process (e.g., Collard et al. 2006)
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51700
ISBN:	978-1-4419-0682-3
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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