Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issues in anthropological studies of innovation / Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan -- Innovation and invention from a logical point of view / André Ariew -- Comparative perspectives on human innovation / Kevin N. Laland and Simon M. Reader -- Organismal innovation / Jeffrey H. Schwartz -- Innovation, replicative behavior, and evolvability : contributions from neuroscience and human decision-making theory / Daniel O. Larson -- Innovation from evo-devo to human culture / Werner Callebaut -- The evolution of innovation-enhancing institutions / Joseph Henrich -- Fashion versus reason in the creative industries / R. Alexander Bentley -- Demography and variation in the accumulation of culturally inherited skills / Adam Powell, Stephen J. Shennan, and Mark G. Thomas -- Cultural traditions and the evolutionary advantages of noninnovation / Craig T. Palmer -- The experimental study of cultural innovation / Alex Mesoudi -- Social learning, economic inequality, and innovation diffusion / Anne Kandler and James Steele -- Technological innovations and developmental trajectories : social factors as evolutionary forces / Valentine Roux -- Can archaeologists study processes of invention? / Michael Brian Schiffer -- War, women, and religion : the spread of Salado polychrome in the American Southwest / Todd L. VanPool and Chet Savage.