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field sites
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Jan 3, 2017
Addressing the Field Site Concept: A Cognitive Anthropologist’s View
In order for us to understand culture, it is in relation to our environments, both biological—as stressed by evolutionary psychology—and social—as stressed by cultural evolution. A well validated theoretical perspective can generate insights and explanations that lab experiments alone cannot provide.
Jan 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.
Dec 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.
Dec 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?
Nov 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.
Oct 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.
Oct 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.
Oct 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.