Contents -- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of Human Groups -- 2 Zoon Politicon -- 3 Human Cooperation among Kin and Close Associates May Require Enforcement of Norms by Third Parties -- 4 The Puzzle of Human Ultrasociality -- 5 Like Me -- 6 Cultural Evolution of the Structure of Human Groups -- Technology and Science -- 7 The Cultural Evolutionof Technology -- 8 Long-Term Trajectories of Technological Change -- 9 Neuroscience of Technology -- 10 Scientific Method as Cultural Innovation -- 11 The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science -- Language -- 12 The Interplay of Genetic and Cultural Factors in Ongoing Language Evolution -- 13 Language Diversity as a Resource for Understanding Cultural Evolution -- 14 Language Acquisition as a Cultural Process -- 15 Phylogenetic Models of Language Change -- 16 Cultural Evolution of Language -- Religion -- 17 The Evolution of Prosocial Religions -- 18 Rethinking Proximate Causation and Development in Religious Evolution -- 19 Religious Prosociality -- 20 The Cultural Evolution of Religion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.