Cultural attraction theory (CAT) is a research agenda the purpose of which is to develop
causal explanations of cultural phenomena. CAT is also an evolutionary approach to culture …

Tracing the evolution of human culture through time is arguably one of the most
controversial and complex scholarly endeavors, and a broad evolutionary analysis of how …

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural
change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Culture presents a second inheritance system by which innovations can be transmitted
between generations and among individuals. Some vocal behaviours present compelling …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

From an early age, humans exhibit a tendency to identify, adopt, and enforce the norms of
their local communities. Norms are the social rules that mark out what is appropriate …

A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what
makes us human Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and …

Our primary aim in this paper is to sketch a cognitive evolutionary approach for develo**
explanations of social change that is anchored in the psychological mechanisms underlying …

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well
as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies …