Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 11:54:47 -0500
From: Bill Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>
To: Memetics Listserve <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>,
Subject: Book on the Measurement of Cultural Evolution
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jahnyc/
David Hays's "The Measurement of Cultural Evolution in the Non-Literate
World: Homage to Rauol Naroll" is worth the attention of anyone
seriously concerned about the empirical study of cultural evolution. It
reviews a large literature devoted to cultural complexity and proposes
new measures of the complexity of non-literature cultures.
"...a truly major advance in evolutionary studies"--Robert Carneiro,
American Museum of Natural History
"In this remarkable monograph we find the most significant proposals to
date on the 'characteristics of cultural evolution' and their systematic
study"--Brent Berlin, University of Georgia
-- William Benzon Senior Scientist Meta4 Incorporated 33-41 Newark Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA voice: 201.656.0906 fax: 201.656.0901 home page: www.newsavanna.com/wlb/
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