Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human EvolutionBook
by Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd
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Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and author of The Secret of Our Success and The WEIRDest People in the World.
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Finally, Not by Genes Alone puts together 30 years of research in one place. It makes the case that culture is really important, that it is evolving, and that we can solve lots of problems—like explaining 'the demographic transition'—by thinking about cultural evolution.
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