Handbook of Evolution V 1 – The Evolution of Human Societies and Cultures

Franz M. Wuketits, born in 1955, studied zoology, paleontology, philosophy, and philosophy of science and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Vienna, Austria, where he has been teaching philosophy of science with a special emphasis on biology since 1980. He also lectures at the University of Graz, Austria, and the Technical University of Vienna. He is on the board of directors at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research and a member of the advisory board of several scientific institutions. He has published 29 books, edited or co-edited 12 volumes and is author of about 300 articles, and in 1982 received the Austrian Award for Scientific Publishing. Christopher Antweiler, born in 1956, is currently Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Trier, Germany. He first studied geology and paleontology and gained his diploma with a work on paleoclimatologic method. He went on to study cultural selectionism from the University of Cologne, Germany. His main regional research interest in anthropology is Southeast Asia. He has published extensively on cognition, cities, social evolution, development and local knowledge, and is currently working on a book on cultural universals.