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Cultural evolution is cultural change viewed from an evolutionary perspective.
It may also refer to:
- Social evolution, the evolution of social behaviour
- Sociocultural evolution, a historic theory of social change based on linear progress
- Dual-inheritance theory, a specific framework for studying cultural evolution
- Memetics
- Cultural selection theory
Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change.
Historically, there have been a number of different approaches to the study of cultural evolution, including dual inheritance theory, sociocultural evolution, memetics and cultural evolutionism. These approaches differ not just in the history of their development, but in how they conceptualise the process of cultural evolution and the assumptions, theories and methods they apply to its study. However, in recent years there has been a movement towards seeing cultural evolution as a unified discipline that synthesises knowledge from a range of biological and social sciences.
Usage examples of "cultural evolution".
This particularly applies to successive stages of cultural evolution, from the hunt to the farm to the engine to the computer.
Earlier studies on Takasakiyama, a mountain in northeast Kyushu inhabited by macaques, show a similar pattern in cultural evolution.
It is manifested in the phenomena that we call cultural evolution.
Were the crucial branching points ruled not by the great forces of cultural evolution, but by personal jealousies and wars of thwarted love?
They are, however, the finest living laboratories on human behavior and cultural evolution that exist, particularly since it's unethical to deliberately do it to people or groups.
How could they possibly have achieved all this, tens of thousands of years out of the normal human sequence of cultural evolution?
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As usual, a process of cultural evolution that combined blind chance with conscious decisions—.