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October 19, 2016

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: Introduction

Together with commentaries by authors with diverse perspectives on field research, we hope to catalyze the formation of field sites for the study of cultural evolution around the world.

December 27, 2016

On Field Sites for the Study of Cultural Evolution

How might we create a field site concept for cultural evolution that provides depth and breadth but that is based on new data?

December 30, 2016

Defining and Implementing Field Sites in Cultural Evolution Science

If field sites are cross-cultural, multi-method, and collaborative across disciplines, however, they can improve the quality of our field, and help us make major steps toward understanding the evolution of human behavior.

November 10, 2016

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: A Sociologist’s Perspective

If sociologists come to recognize that sociality and group process underlie the evolution of our species and are inherent in our biology, the use of field sites will become not just a means of framing sociological research but a clarion call for transdisciplinary recognition of the centrality of our discipline.

October 3, 2016

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: An Evolutionary Biologist’s View

The human capacity to transmit large amounts of learned information across generations is now properly seen as both a product of genetic evolution and a process of evolution in its own right.

October 19, 2016

Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution: An Anthropologist’s View

Cultural evolution research faces many challenges in the years to come. One of the most fundamental, perhaps, is to establish the extent to which cultural evolution is Darwinian.

January 2, 2017

Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory and Field

To gain a holistic understanding of social evolution, we need to consider cumulative evidence, completing the puzzle one piece at a time. And to do that, we need to move back and forth between field and lab studies.