@article{1448096,
      recid = {1448096},
      author = {Rosenberg, Michael,},
      title = {The dynamics of cultural evolution : the central role of  purposive behaviors /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally  structured social and behavioral entities, their  evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive  behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the  case for cultural and cultural structured systems being  considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and  not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another  system. Second, it examines how these entities interact to  produce evolutionary culture change. It then argues that  the intent of purposive behaviors is reliably knowable in  the aggregate, at least when dealing with expressions of  behavioral tendencies in the animal kingdom, humans  included. Finally, the book references well documented  behavioral tendencies for examples of proximate causation  in the evolution of settled village societies and,  following that, socially complex societies. Through these  efforts, the book synthesizes the various approaches to the  evolution of culture and provides a complete and  comprehensive picture of the process. It provides a  corrective to the tendency to view cultural systems as  entirely open ended and as capable of changing in any  direction; and also to treating cultural evolution as  solely a result of selective forces, that is, in terms of  only ultimate causation. This book provides an engaging and  critical counterview to established theories of cultural  evolution and is of interest to scholars and students of  different disciplines, from anthropology and archeology, to  evolutionary biology and epigenetics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1448096},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04863-0},
}