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Jul 7, 2017 · Here, we explore the ways in which cultural evolutionary theory and its applications enhance our understanding of human history and human biology, focusing on the links between cultural evolutionary theory and population genetics, human behavioral ecology, and demography.
- Nicole Creanza, Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman
- 10.1073/pnas.1620732114
- 2017
- 2017/07/07
Feb 20, 2021 · Key Terms. Social Darwinism: a theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures. culture: The beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that constitute a people’s way of life.
Dec 16, 2019 · Culture, a socially transmitted system of shared knowledge, beliefs and/or practices that varies across groups, and individuals within those groups, has been a critical mode of adaptation throughout the history of our species [ 1 ].
- Margarita Hernandez, James K. Gibb
- 2020
Apr 4, 2011 · Having briefly considered the history of patterns of cultural differentiation, two broad issues emerge: the first is the question of what the underlying causes of community differentiation based on cultural traits are, and the second, the consequences for human populational structure.
- R. A. Foley, M. Mirazón Lahr
- 2011
Apr 29, 2017 · Here, we explore the ways in which cultural evolutionary theory and its applications enhance our understanding of human history and human biology, focusing on the links between cultural evolutionary theory and population genetics, human behavioral ecology, and demography.
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Recent decades have revealed that social learning and the transmission of cultural traditions are much more widespread in the animal kingdom than earlier suspected, affecting numerous forms of functional behavior and creating a secondary form of evolution, built onto the better-known primary, genetically based form.