John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia; and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. He was co-founder of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, where he held an ARC Federation Fellowship and was founding Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty. He has held visiting scholar positions in the USA, UK, China, Germany and Denmark. He was awarded the Order of Australia for service to education, and holds fellowships of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Royal Society of Arts, and International Communication Association. He has published more than 20 books (as author, co-author or editor) in communication, cultural and media studies, including Popular Reality (Bloomsbury).Jason Potts, Schumpeter Prize winner, is ARC Future Fellow, Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; and Editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. He is the author of 6 books and over 80 papers in evolutionary economics and innovation.

Humans have evolved to make culture in the same way birds have evolved to make nests and spiders to make webs. Even more telling is the fact that culture has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to make human nature what it is. In this ambitious and persuasive work, Hartley and Potts offer a vision of the unification of behavioral science and cultural studies that shatters traditional disciplinary boundaries.

• Intro1. Curiously Parallel – The Nature of CulturePart I: Culture Makes Groups2. Externalism – Identity (‘Me’ is ‘We’)3. Demes – Universal-Adversarial Groupishness (‘We’ vs ‘They’)4. Malvoisine – Bad Neighbours5. Citizens – Demic Concentration Creates KnowledgePart II: Groups Make Knowledge6. Meaningfulness – The Growth of Knowledge7. Newness – Innovation8. Waste – Reproductive Success9. Extinction – Resilience and Ossification Part III: Outro10. A Natural History of Demic Concentration AcknowledgementsReferencesIndex

John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia; and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. He was co-founder of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, where he held an ARC Federation Fellowship and was founding Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty. He has held visiting scholar positions in the USA, UK, China, Germany and Denmark. He was awarded the Order of Australia for service to education, and holds fellowships of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Royal Society of Arts, and International Communication Association. He has published more than 20 books (as author, co-author or editor) in communication, cultural and media studies, including Popular Reality (Bloomsbury).Jason Potts, Schumpeter Prize winner, is ARC Future Fellow, Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; and Editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. He is the author of 6 books and over 80 papers in evolutionary economics and innovation.

Humans have evolved to make culture in the same way birds have evolved to make nests and spiders to make webs. Even more telling is the fact that culture has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to make human nature what it is. In this ambitious and persuasive work, Hartley and Potts offer a vision of the unification of behavioral science and cultural studies that shatters traditional disciplinary boundaries.

• Intro1. Curiously Parallel – The Nature of CulturePart I: Culture Makes Groups2. Externalism – Identity (‘Me’ is ‘We’)3. Demes – Universal-Adversarial Groupishness (‘We’ vs ‘They’)4. Malvoisine – Bad Neighbours5. Citizens – Demic Concentration Creates KnowledgePart II: Groups Make Knowledge6. Meaningfulness – The Growth of Knowledge7. Newness – Innovation8. Waste – Reproductive Success9. Extinction – Resilience and Ossification Part III: Outro10. A Natural History of Demic Concentration AcknowledgementsReferencesIndex

John Hartley is Professor of Cultural Science and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Western Australia; and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales. He was co-founder of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, where he held an ARC Federation Fellowship and was founding Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty. He has held visiting scholar positions in the USA, UK, China, Germany and Denmark. He was awarded the Order of Australia for service to education, and holds fellowships of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Royal Society of Arts, and International Communication Association. He has published more than 20 books (as author, co-author or editor) in communication, cultural and media studies, including Popular Reality (Bloomsbury).Jason Potts, Schumpeter Prize winner, is ARC Future Fellow, Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; and Editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics. He is the author of 6 books and over 80 papers in evolutionary economics and innovation.

Humans have evolved to make culture in the same way birds have evolved to make nests and spiders to make webs. Even more telling is the fact that culture has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to make human nature what it is. In this ambitious and persuasive work, Hartley and Potts offer a vision of the unification of behavioral science and cultural studies that shatters traditional disciplinary boundaries.

• Intro1. Curiously Parallel – The Nature of CulturePart I: Culture Makes Groups2. Externalism – Identity (‘Me’ is ‘We’)3. Demes – Universal-Adversarial Groupishness (‘We’ vs ‘They’)4. Malvoisine – Bad Neighbours5. Citizens – Demic Concentration Creates KnowledgePart II: Groups Make Knowledge6. Meaningfulness – The Growth of Knowledge7. Newness – Innovation8. Waste – Reproductive Success9. Extinction – Resilience and Ossification Part III: Outro10. A Natural History of Demic Concentration AcknowledgementsReferencesIndex