The Imagined World Made Real Towards a Natural Science of Culture

includes index and biblioraphy

Marrying the Biological and Social Sciences i
Culture, social constructions and natural science 7
Possible frameworks 16
Evolution and the theory of evolution 19
Alternative theories to NeoDarwinism 38
How good a theory is evolutionary theory? 43
2 The Evolution of Intelligence 47
Why intelligence ever evolved at all 48
The limits of reductionism 71
Intelligence unlimited? 75
Fodor poses a problem 83
Human intelligence as adaptation or exaptation 88
3 The Emergence of Culture 95
Broadening the picture 100
The trouble with `levels` 112
A solution to the levels problem 114
4 Naturalizing Culture the Process Way 120
The puzzle of war 124
Universal Darwinism 130
Modelling co-evolution 135
The `new` science of memetics 140
5 Causal Mechanisms 161
A general framework for understanding psychological mechanism 163
What those mechanisms may be 171
Concepts, schemata and other higher-order knowledge structures 172
Imitation 179
Language 188
Theory of Mind 197
Social force 204
A single magical mechanism? ZO9
Sugges ted R eadings 211
6 Individuals, Groups and Culture 213
The behavioural ecology of group living 217
The units and levels of selection 220
Vehicles, interactors and the revival of group selection 231
Niche construction 242
7 The Strangeness of Culture 248
The construction of social reality 251
A sociological turn 259
Social representations 266
Cultural psychology 273