Continuities in cultural evolution

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Climate of Opinion and the Study of Evolution -- 2. Stress on Continuity -- 3. Conditions of Early Forms of Cultural Transmission -- 4. Evolutionary Implications of Learning by Empathy, Imitation, and Identification -- 5. Evolutionary Significance of Transmission of Culture through Artifacts -- 6. Borderlines between Learning and Teaching -- Part II -- 7. Directionality of Human Evolution -- 8. The Unit of Cultural Micro-Evolution -- 9. The Paliau Movement in the Admiralties -- Part III -- 10. The Conditions of Conscious Participation in the Evolutionary Process -- 11. The Conditions of Scientific Participation -- 12. Difficulties in Creating Evolutionary Clusters -- 13. An Evolutionary Focus for Thinking -- 14. Ongoing Social Forms -- 15. Possible Forms of Centers with an Evolutionary Potential -- 16. Invoking the Future -- APPENDICES -- A. Micro- and Macro-Cultural Models for Cultural Evolution, Theodore Schwartz and Margaret Mead -- B. Seven Pacific Cultures -- C. Bibliographical Considerations -- Notes -- References -- Index of Sources