How Darwinian is cultural evolution

Volume: 369, Issue: 1642, Pages: 20130368 - 20130368
Published: May 19, 2014
Abstract
Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progress has involved idealizing away from phenomena that...
Paper Details
Title
How Darwinian is cultural evolution
Published Date
May 19, 2014
Volume
369
Issue
1642
Pages
20130368 - 20130368
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