The Cultural Evolution of Human Nature

Recent years have seen the growing promise of cultural evolutionary theory as a new approach to bringing human behaviour fully within the broader evolutionary synthesis. This review of two recent seminal works on this topic argues that cultural evolution now holds the potential to bring together fie...

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Autor principal: Stanford, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2019
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Review Essay
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31563992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-019-09367-7
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description Recent years have seen the growing promise of cultural evolutionary theory as a new approach to bringing human behaviour fully within the broader evolutionary synthesis. This review of two recent seminal works on this topic argues that cultural evolution now holds the potential to bring together fields as disparate as neuroscience and social anthropology within a unified explanatory and ontological framework.
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spelling pubmed-71886942020-05-04 The Cultural Evolution of Human Nature Stanford, Mark Acta Biotheor Review Essay Recent years have seen the growing promise of cultural evolutionary theory as a new approach to bringing human behaviour fully within the broader evolutionary synthesis. This review of two recent seminal works on this topic argues that cultural evolution now holds the potential to bring together fields as disparate as neuroscience and social anthropology within a unified explanatory and ontological framework. Springer Netherlands 2019-09-28 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7188694/ /pubmed/31563992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-019-09367-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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