How Darwinian is cultural evolution?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1642, 2014, Pages

  Claidie, Nicolaśre ^a   Scott Phillips, Thomas C ^b   Sperber, Dan ^c,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cultural attraction; Cultural evolution; Culture; Population thinking

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; NATURAL SELECTION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL ATTRACTION; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION THINKING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL ATTRACTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; POPULATION THINKING;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84897148366     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0368     Document Type: Article

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