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- Cultural evolution: the idea that Darwin's theory of evolution — comprising variation, competition and inheritance — applies to cultural change, where inheritance derives from social learning rather than genetic transmission.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X15001694Cultural evolution: integrating psychology, evolution and culture
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Many of the first models of cultural evolution drew explicit parallels between culture and genes by modifying concepts from theoretical population genetics and applying them to culture.
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. Humans and other cultural species are the joint product of both our genetic and cultural inheritances.
Many of the first quantita-tive models of cultural evolution were modified from existing con-cepts in theoretical population genetics because cultural evolution has many parallels with, as well as clear differences from, genetic evolution.
Apr 22, 2015 · Cultural evolution is the theory that this socially transmitted information evolves in the manner laid out by Darwin in The Origin of Species, i.e. it comprises a system of variation, differential fitness and inheritance.
- Alex Mesoudi, Alex Mesoudi
- a.mesoudi@exeter.ac.uk
- 2016
May 17, 2021 · As we define it here, culture–culture coevolution occurs when a culturally inherited cognitive mechanism evolves in response to a cultural environment, altering that environment and enabling further evolution of the cognitive mechanism, without any underlying genetic change.
- Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
- 2021
Aug 31, 2020 · The potential for a rapid rate of cultural evolution compared to genetic change raises an important possibility: in humans, genetic adaptation to new environments or genetic responses to...
Jul 24, 2024 · When culturally inherited information varies across individuals or groups and changes over time in response to various factors, we can say that culture evolves. Despite the basic analogy with genetic evolution, there are many differences between cultural and genetic evolution.
