cultural evolution, the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms. In the 18th and 19th centuries the subject was viewed as a unilinear phenomenon that …

The core idea of cultural evolution is that cultural change constitutes an evolutionary process that shares fundamental similarities with – but also differs in key ways from – genetic evolution. …

2007年12月23日 · What makes this program cultural (in the eyes of its adherents) is its focus on the various ways in which humans—and other organisms—learn from other members of their …

2022年10月7日 · Cultural Evolution is the process of change in a culture (or any element of a culture) over time. The term “evolution” is used to draw a parallel between cultural changes …

There now exists a vibrant field of cultural evolution, with anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, historians, political scientists, psychologists and researchers in many other fields, …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers have …

Boyd & Richerson proposed that some of the cognitive mechanisms involved in human cultural evolution—including the mechanisms mediating conformist bias—evolved, like lactose …

This article provides an overview of the field of cultural evolution, in which cultural change is studied as a Darwinian evolutionary process. Although a fringe interest just 20 years ago, …

2015年4月22日 · Here I provide an overview of the theory of cultural evolution, including its intellectual history, major theoretical tenets and methods, key findings, and prominent …

2012年1月11日 · This review of contemporary cultural evolution research covers the key methods used to study both cultural microevolution and macroevolution, along with brief commentaries …