1. Cultural Evolution

    Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching, imitation and other forms of social transmission". Cultural evolution is the change of this information over time. Cultural evolution, historically also known as sociocultural evolution, was originally developed in the 19th century by anthropologists stemming from Charles Darwin's research on evolution. Today, cultural evolution has become the basis for a growing field of scientific research in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, psychology and organizational studies. Previously, it was believed that social change resulted from biological adaptations, but anthropologists now commonly accept that social changes arise in consequence of a combination of social, evolutionary and biological influences. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Learn about the development of one or more cultures from simpler to more complex forms, from the 18th-century philosophers to the 20th-century neoevolutionists. Explore the unilinear and multilinear perspectives, the typologies, and the influences of biological evolution on cultural evolution.
  3. culturalevolutionsociety.org

    Cultural evolution is the evolutionary process of cultural change that shares similarities and differences with genetic evolution. Learn how culture is defined, how it varies, inherits and evolves, and how it differs from genetic evolution.
  4. templeton.org

    Cultural evolution is the process of change in a culture over time, drawing parallels with genetic evolution. Learn how cultural evolution differs from social Darwinism and meme theory, and what are the main questions and challenges for this interdisciplinary field.
  5. plato.stanford.edu

    They assume that cultural evolution acts on cultural "replicators", where cultural replication is understood in a fairly demanding way. To illustrate the difference between some of these approaches, consider that a selectional approach to the technological evolution of tools, for example, requires comparatively little.
  6. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Boyd & Richerson proposed that some of the cognitive mechanisms involved in human cultural evolution—including the mechanisms mediating conformist bias—evolved, like lactose tolerance, by gene-culture coevolution. This has remained a central tenet of the 'California school' of cultural evolution that Boyd, Richerson, Henrich and their ...
  7. culturalevolutionsociety.org

    Learn how the study of cultural evolution has evolved from Darwin's parallel with biological evolution to modern mathematical models and phylogenetic methods. Explore the key figures, theories and topics in the field of cultural evolution, from languages and artifacts to social media and religion.
  8. Cultural evolution is a fundamentally interdisciplinary field, bridging gaps between academic disciplines and facilitating connections between disparate approaches. For example, the advent of technologies for revealing genomic variation has led to a plethora of studies that measure association between DNA variants and traits that have major ...
  9. oxfordbibliographies.com

    A comprehensive overview of the field of cultural evolution, which applies Darwinian theory to explain human cultural change and diversity. Includes reviews, books, and articles on methods, processes, and examples of cultural evolution.
  10. link.springer.com

    Cultural evolution is the theory that cultural change in humans and other species can be described as a Darwinian evolutionary process, and consequently that many of the concepts, tools and methods used by biologists to study biological evolution can be equally profitably applied to study cultural change (Mesoudi 2011a; Richerson and Boyd 2005; Richerson and Christiansen 2013).

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