TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plotkin, Henry
AU  - Plotkin,Henry
TI  - The Imagined World Made Real:  Towards a Natural Science of Culture
SN  - 081353268X   
U1  - O60.1 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Burnswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
N1  - 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

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