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  1. What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution. When transmitting information to one another, humans tend to make certain mistakes more than others. A cognitive anthropologist explains why that matters to cultural stability and change. ... Most cultural evolution theorists assume that these traditions are maintained through generations by ...
    • How Ursula Le Guin's Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology - SAPIENS

      Kroeber's mentor was a Columbia University anthropologist named Franz Boas. Kroeber was especially drawn to Boas' newly developed notion of culture and the broader theory of "cultural relativism." Cultural relativism emerged in the late 19th century as an alternative to theories like social Darwinism that linked culture to evolution.

    • What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution

      What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution. Helena Miton. When transmitting information to one another, humans tend to make certain mistakes more than others. A cognitive anthropologist explains why that matters to cultural stability and change. Republish. Y ou may republish this article, ...

  2. One approach, known as cultural evolution, draws from Darwinian theory to view the evolution in longstanding cultural practices as akin to the evolution of biological species. Most cultural evolution theorists assume that these traditions are maintained through generations by faithful transmission, or what's known as "cultural fidelity ...
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  4. What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution. Helena Miton. When transmitting information to one another, humans tend to make certain mistakes more than others. A cognitive anthropologist explains why that matters to cultural stability and change. Republish. Y ou may republish this article, ...
  5. But based on new research, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Helena Miton argues that the story of cultural evolution is somewhat different. While cultural artifacts do persist in ways that are analogous to the way that species persist genetically, the persistence of cultural phenomena is better explained by the ways cultural copying regularly ...
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    What misspellings reveal about cultural evolution. August 8, 2021 From elsewhere. Helena Miton writes: Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell it as "Milton"—as in the famed English author, John Milton, of the epic poem Paradise Lost.
  7. collectwithpurpose.com

    Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration by VectorMine / ShutterstockSomething about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell it as "Milton"—as in the famed English author, John Milton, of the epic poem ...
  8. 3quarksdaily.com

    Most cultural evolution theorists assume that these traditions are maintained through generations by faithful transmission, or what's known as "cultural fidelity." Because humans are considered to be particularly adept at acquiring information through imitation, it stands to reason, they say, that we'd copy our models without mistakes.
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