cultural evolution
Spontaneous order and social norms. Hayek’s theory of socio-cultural evolution
... social evolution with the notion of human ...socio-cultural evolution by removing the holistic-functionalist argument that relies on the concept of group-level ...
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Paleontology and Cornets: Thoughts on Material Cultural Evolution
... nineteenth century. This relatively long period of little or no change in the design of the dominant model of cornets represents a period of significant “ stasis ” in material cultural evolution—very much ...
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Evolutionary ethnobiology and cultural evolution: opportunities for research and dialog
... as cultural mutation ...of cultural mutation can also explain the results of ethnobiological studies of local medical systems that show a higher re- dundancy in medicinal plants that treat the most fre- ...
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Individual biases, cultural evolution, and the statistical nature of language universals: the case of colour naming systems
... on cultural trans- mission ...that cultural transmission can magnify weak biases into strong universals, while strong biases could be shielded by transmission bottleneck, ...and cultural trans- ...
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Cultural evolution in Rufous-and-white Wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus): Insights from acoustic and genetic analyses
... Another potential factor influencing sex-specific differences in cultural evolution is that males and females use their songs differently. The Social Adaptation Hypothesis predicts that birds learn songs to ...
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From social learning to culture : mathematical and computational models of cultural evolution
... that cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution may also allow us to examine some of the more harmful aspects of human culture like the human propensity to wage large-scale, highly organised war, which ...
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The role of individual behaviour in the collective cultural evolution of humpback whale songs
... (song evolution) over time (Payne et ...2011). Cultural processes of such geographical and demographic magnitudes have been recorded otherwise only in human cultural ...
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The dynamics of norm change in the cultural evolution of language
... What happens when a new social convention replaces an old one? While the possible forces favoring norm change - such as institutions or committed activists - have been identified since a long time, little is known about ...
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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OPTIMAL PORTFOLIO SELECTION USING ALGORITHM IMPERIALIST COMPETITIVE AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION
... and cultural evolution algorithm for companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2007 to 2013 and comparing them with each ...the cultural evolution algorithm and lead to a ...
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Cultural evolution developing its own rules: The rise of conservatism and persuasion
... of cultural transmission in which individuals may copy each other’s cultural traits, including traits that can affect the copying process ...as cultural traits the extent to which indi- viduals are ...
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Studying Cultural Evolution at the Tips: Human Cross-cultural Ecology
... in cultural diversity have benefited from the abundant knowledge that exists about local population histories (Borgerhoff Mulder 2001; Borgerhoff Mulder et ...in cultural diversity, there are unfortunately ...
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Cultural evolution of killer whale calls: background, mechanisms and consequences
... Cultural evolution is a powerful process shaping behavioural phenotypes of many species including our ...the cultural transmission and gene-‐culture co-‐evolution processes that produce the ...
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The maturity of modeling. A comment on "Modeling the Cultural Evolution of Language" by Luc Steels.
... Permanent repository link: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/13938/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2011.10.005 Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to [r] ...
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Spectacular pehnomena and limits to rationality in genetic and cultural evolution
... Ornamentation and rituals in humans are by no means limited to commercial contexts. In fact, major parts of all cultures include creation and enjoyment of stimulation such as music, gardens, decorated homes, films, ...
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The Appeal to Tradition: Cultural Evolution and Logical Soundness
... But a more stable culture well adapted to its environment offers a meaningful al- beit defeasible warranty on behalf of its traditional practices because, whether they [r] ...
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Vocal Variability of Chaffinch Song (Fringilla coelebs L ) as a Condition of Cultural Evolution in Local Populations
... Also elements of started singing in song type B Figure 8a record on Curonian spit and the “combined” song type BF Figure 8b record in Michurinsk, the Tambov region are modified in phonet[r] ...
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The spontaneous emergence of conventions: An experimental study of cultural evolution
... Figure 1. The evolution of social conventions across network topologies (N=24). Panels indicate spatially embedded networks (a, d -‐ blue), random networks (b, e -‐ green), and homogeneously mixing populations ...
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Physical constraints of cultural evolution of dialects in killer whales
... and upper components of stereotyped two-voiced calls in killer whales are produced with 13... 2007 demonstrated the differences in the relative intensity of harmonics between male.[r] ...
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Miranda and the Media: Tracing the Cultural Evolution of a Constitutional Revolution
... and cultural criticism, the set-up of the movie involves the San Francisco police department’s failing efforts to catch a serial killer loose on the streets of San ...
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Communicative Modelling of Cultural Transmission and Evolution Through a Holographic Cognition Model
... of cultural evolution (Figure 17) by cultural conversations (Figure ...a cultural evolution process that is deemed to be important enough to be captured - within a specific context, for ...
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