Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation -- II The Biological Substrate -- 2 Innovation and Invention from a Logical Point of View -- 3 Comparative Perspectives on Human Innovation -- 4 Organismal Innovation -- 5 Innovation, Replicative Behavior, and Evolvability -- 6 Innovation from EvoDevo to Human Culture -- III Cultural Inheritance -- 7 The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions -- 8 Fashion versus Reason in the Creative Industries -- 9 Demography and Variation in the Accumulation of Culturally Inherited Skills -- 10 Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation -- 11 The Experimental Study of Cultural Innovation -- 12 Social Learning, Economic Inequality, and Innovation Diffusion -- IV Patterns in the Anthropological Record -- 13 Technological Innovations and Developmental Trajectories -- 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention? -- 15 War, Women, and Religion -- Contributors -- Index.