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Culture and the Evolutionary Process

Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson · 1985

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Joseph Henrich recommends it
But it is Boyd and Richerson who ended up writing a book, in 1985, called Culture and the Evolutionary Process, which is a highly technical book, but really lays out a framework for thinking about the interaction between genes and culture — how culture can give rise to different kinds of social phenomena, how it can explain human cooperation.

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