Institutions as Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution: Prospects of the Epidemiological Approach

Biological Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 244-249

  Heintz, Christophe ^a  

^a KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

cultural epidemiology; cultural evolution; Dan Sperber; institutions; regulative representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859829412     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2007.2.3.244     Document Type: Article

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