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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Birch J, Heyes C.
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Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016 Cultural evolution represents a body of theory and findings premised on the notions that, (i), human cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process that shares key characteristics with (but is not identical in details to) genetic evolution; (ii), this second evolutionary process has been instrumental in our species’ dramatic ecological ...
Mesoudi, A
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Social Forces, 2018 Cultural traits are those phenotypic traits whose development depends on social learning. These include practices, skills, beliefs, desires, values, and artefacts. The distribution of cultural traits in the human species changes over time. But this is not enough to show that culture evolves. That depends on the mechanisms of change.
Matteo Mameli, Kim Sterelny
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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Popular music offers a rich source of data that provides insights into long-term cultural evolutionary dynamics. One major trend in popular music, as well as other cultural products such as literary fiction, is an increase over time in negatively ...
Charlotte O. Brand +2 more
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Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, 2021 Rad ne sadrži sažetak.
Azita Chellappoo
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Multilevel cultural evolution: From new theory to practical applications. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Evolutionary science has led to many practical applications of genetic evolution but few practical uses of cultural evolution. This is because the entire study of evolution was gene centric for most of the 20th century, relegating the study and ...
Wilson DS +5 more
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Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research [PDF]
Artificial Life, 2022 The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be.” The study and pursuit of open-ended evolution in artificial ...
James M. Borg +5 more
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Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 In studies of cumulative cultural evolution in non-human animals, the focus is most often on incremental changes that increase the efficacy of an existing form of socially learned behaviour, such as the refinement of migratory pathways. In this paper, we
Williams H, Lachlan RF.
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Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ADeffner D +3 more
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Underappreciated features of cultural evolution. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Smolla M +8 more
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