The idea that cultural evolution exhibits variation, competition, and inheritance and therefore
can be studied by adjusting the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is an …

The evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s integrated the study of biological
microevolution and biological macroevolution into the theoretically consistent and hugely …

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 …

While most anthropologists are not naturalistic in their approach and are not even trying to
be, the project of a natural science of society and culture has always haunted the field …

The last two decades have seen an explosion in research analysing cultural change as a
Darwinian evolutionary process. Here I provide an overview of the theory of cultural …

Abstract'Culture'is defined as information, such as knowledge, beliefs, skills, attitudes or
values, that is passed from individual to individual via social (or cultural) transmission and …

Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to
broadly Darwinian principles. Yet how far the analogy between cultural and genetic …

In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and
biological evolution. Most of these attempts were flawed due to lack of knowledge and false …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

Many researchers have noted analogies between the processes of biological evolution and
cultural change. For instance, both genes and culture are informational entities that are …