chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 An Introduction to Evolutionary Models of Human Social Behavior -- chapter 3 How Niche Construction Contributes to Human Gene-Culture Coevolution -- chapter 4 State and Value: A Perspective from Behavioral Ecology -- chapter 5 An Agnostic View of Memes -- chapter 6 Biological Ends and Human Social Information Transmission -- chapter 7 The Significance of Socially Transmitted Information for Nutrition and Health in the Great Ape Clade -- chapter 8 Language: Costs and Benefits of a Specialized System for Social Information Transmission -- chapter 9 The Evolution of Social Information Transmissionin Homo -- chapter 10 From Cultural History to Cultural Evolution: An Archaeological Perspective on Social Information Transmission -- chapter 11 The Uptake of Modern Contraception in a Gambian Community: The Diffusion of an Innovation over 25 Years -- chapter 12 Sex without Birth or Death: A Comparison of Two International Humanitarian Movements -- chapter 13 Smoking and the New Health Education in Britain, 1950s–1970s -- chapter 14 The Demographic and Health Impact of the One Child Family Policy -- chapter 15 Social Trends and Psychopathology -- chapter 16 Epilogue: Memory, Tradition, and Teleology.