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The origin and evolution of cultures

·2005·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.43-1027
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Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The papers - which were published in a diverse set of journals and which are not easily available - a conceptually linked and form a cohesive, unified evolutionary account of human culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior: unlike other organism, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Taking off from these two assumptions, Boyd and Richerson's novel idea is that culture is a pool of information, stored in the brains of a population, that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Among their conclusions: culture can account for both our astounding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. Interest in Boyd and Richerson's work spans anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science, and has…

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  • Some phenotypic plasticity mechanisms are themselves evolutionary processes.

    “Some mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity count as evolutionary processes in their own right.”

    From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Richerson & Boyd 2005

  • The four inheritance systems-genetic, epigenetic, learning, and symbolic thought-have interacted throughout human history.

    “the four inheritance systems discussed by Jablonka and Lamb (2006) – genetic, epigenetics, learning, and symbolic thought – have been interacting with one another throughout our history as a species (Richerson & Boyd 2005).”

    From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Richerson & Boyd 2005

  • For society to function at larger scales, new products of cultural evolution are needed to interface with old products of genetic evolution.

    “For society to function at these larger scales, new products of cultural evolution are needed to interface with old products of genetic evolution (Johnson et al., in press; Mullins et al., in press; Richerson & Boyd 2005; Stoelhorst & Richerson, in press; Witt & Schwesinger, in press).”

    From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Richerson & Boyd 2005

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Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
2005-10-01
Volume
43
Issue
02
Pages
43-1027-43-1027
ISSN
  • 0009-4978
  • 1523-8253
DOI
10.5860/choice.43-1027
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Language
en

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