title: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)
author: Robert Boyd
description: <br />There is much to learn from the work of Boyd and Richerson, and the initiative to bring together some of their scattered papers in this volume is laudable. Many professional anthrologists, biologists, philosophers and psychologists interested in the study of culture and the evolution of mind and behavior will benefit from it. --<em>Metapsychology</em>
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  Not by Genes Alone
  
  
  
  
  
  How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter J. Richerson  
  and Robert Boyd
  
  
  
  
  
  The University of Chicago Press  
  Chicago and London
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Peter J. Richerson_ is professor of environmental science and policy at the
  University of California–Davis. The author of scores of articles, he has
  edited _Human by Nature_ (with Peter Weingart, Sandra Mitchell, and Sabine
  Maasen). His previous book, _Culture and the Evolutionary Process_ , was
  written with Robert Boyd and published by the University of Chicago Press. A
  volume of their important papers, _The Origin, an Evolution of Cultures_ , is
  forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
  
  
  
  
  
  _Robert Boyd_ is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University
  of California–Los Angeles. In addition to numerous articles and the books
  written or edited with Professor Richerson, he is the author, with J. B. Silk,
  of _How Humans Ev