Alex Mesoudi's book on cultural evolution

Alex Mesoudi's forthcoming book on cultural evolution is scheduled to be published later this year (2011). The book looks set to be called:

Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences.

It seems likely to be a fairly major academic work on the topic.

Alex Mesoudi is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of London. He has been working hard on the study of cultural evolution since around 2002 - and has published numerous papers on the topic.

His 2005 PhD thesis on the topic is a fine document - especially part 1 - which summarises the evidence for cultural evolution.

Some links to Alex's pages:

• publications page;
  
• links page;
  
• research page.

Update 2011-10-19:

• Amazon page;
  
• Reviews.