Tag: Cultural Evolution
Events:
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Tuesday October 15
Workshop: What Can Cultural Evolutionary Theory Teach Us about Obstacles to and Prospects for International Cooperation and Peace?
This gathering (by invitation only) will be in Washington DC at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Co-sponsored by ProSocial World & GSI
Monday July 8 at 4pm ET / 8pm GMT
Research Seminar: Conscious Multilevel Cultural Evolution: Theory, Practice, and Two Case Studies with Robert Styles
Free research seminar and Q&A with the speaker
Articles:
March 18, 2024
Williams’ Rule and Its Relevance for Positive Change Efforts
Williams’ Rule ought to be more widely known, which can improve any positive change effort, no matter what topic domain or scale.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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.
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.
July 31, 2023
Cultural Evolution, Insight, and Fundamental Theories of Consciousness
Since cultural evolution is fueled by the creative efforts of human minds which, by anyone’s definition, are conscious, it would seem that consciousness plays a central role in cultural evolution.
June 18, 2024
(Mis-) Communication in Medicine: A Preventive Way for Doctors to Preserve Effective Communication in Technologically-Evolved Healthcare Environments
Cultural evolution created technologically-advanced contexts that make it difficult for doctors to communicate with patients in manners concordant with our evolved, ancestrally-familiar modes of communication.
July 3, 2012
Use Woofound, Learn Evolution.
It is important to note that evolution is not just about biological change.
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