What's all this we hear about cultural evolution? Surely it's nothing like Darwinian evolution we hear about from biology? Or is it? Is it?
Link to a great channel, The Dissenter, and specifically to a fascinating interview with Thom Scott-Phillips of the Central European University: [ Ссылка ]
Witchcraft Beliefs and Cooperation - Ruth Mace:
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A great proponent of meme-theory, Susan Blackmore, giving a talk at my current un, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen: [ Ссылка ]
The New Science of Culture — Armand Leroi / Serious Science:
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The Dissenter: Russell Gray: Language Evolution, Big Gods and Rituals, and Animal Cognition - [ Ссылка ]
The Disstenter - #696 Ryutaro Uchiyama: Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability:
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'How Darwinian is cultural evolution?' a talk by philosopher Daniel Dennett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure: [ Ссылка ]
How have processes of evolution changed households? - Science Animated -
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The Dissenter - #686 Olivier Morin: How Traditions Live and Die:
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The Dissenter - #700 Claudio Tennie: Tool Behaviors in Great Apes, Cultural Transmission, and Cumulative Culture:
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Further reading:
Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: [ Ссылка ]
Papers:
Acerbi, A., & Mesoudi, A. (2015). If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution. Biology & philosophy, 30(4), 481-503.
Aguirre-Fernández, G., Barbieri, C., Graff, A., Pérez de Arce, J., Moreno, H., & Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. (2021). Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 1-12.
Croft, William (2000): Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach.
London: Longman Linguistics Library
Dawkins, Richard (1976): The selfish gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Morin, O. (2016). Reasons to be fussy about cultural evolution. Biology & Philosophy, 31(3), 447-458.
Singh, M. (2018). The cultural evolution of shamanism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41.
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