The cultural evolution of emergent group-level traits

PE Smaldino - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - cambridge.org
Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

Group-level traits emerge

PE Smaldino - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.proquest.com
Most commentators supported the thesis of the target article, though there were also those
who were less fully persuaded. I will begin with a response to the most critical …

Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a norm-enforcing institution

R Sosis, J Kiper - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.proquest.com
Although religions, as Smaldino demonstrates, provide informative examples of culturally
evolved group-level traits, they are more accurately analyzed as complex adaptive systems …

The collaborative emergence of group cognition

G Theiner, J Sutton - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - researchers.mq.edu.au
We extend Smaldino's approach to collaboration and social organization in cultural
evolution to include cognition. By showing how recent work on emergent group-level …

[PDF][PDF] Many important group-level traits are institutions

MR Zefferman, PJ Richerson - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - zefferman.com
Smaldino makes a solid contribution to the literature on the evolution of human social
organization by pointing out that group-leveltraits (GLTs) often emerge from the interactions …

Emergent group traits, reproduction, and levels of selection

S Okasha - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.proquest.com
All group traits," emergent" or otherwise, are ultimately dependent on the traits and
behaviours of the individuals that constitute the group. Unless a process of" group …

What is a group? Conceptual clarity can help integrate evolutionary and social scientific research on cooperation.

D Gerkey, L Cronk - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
Smaldino argues that evolutionary theories of social behavior do not adequately explain the
emergence of group-level traits, including differentiation of roles and organized interactions …

Language as an emergent group-level trait.

L Shuai, T Gong - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
Following Smaldino's definition, we claim that language is also an emergent group-level
trait, and propose two facets (human groups tend to organize in a way to efficiently trigger …

Maintenance of cultural diversity: Social roles, social networks, and cognitive networks.

M Abrams - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
Smaldino suggests that patterns that give rise to group-level cultural traits can also increase
individual-level cultural diversity. I distinguish social roles and related social network …

Interdisciplinary benefits of a theory of cultural evolution centered at the group-level: The emergence of macro-neuroeconomics and social evolutionary game theory.

TA Mattei - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2014 - search.ebscohost.com
The theoretical concepts developed in the target article, in which the author proposes a new
paradigm of cultural evolution based not on the individuals' characteristics, but rather on …