Genes, Memes and Human History

By Kim Sterelny. 2004

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Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “…this relationship has emerged (e.g., Aunger 2000b; 2002; Blackmore 1999; Boyd & Richerson 2005; Danchin et al. 2004; Mace & Holden 2005; Mesoudi et al. 2004; Mufwene 2001; Pagel & Mace 2004; Plotkin 2002b; Richerson & Boyd 2005; Runciman 2005; Shennan 2002; Wheeler et al. 2002; Ziman 2000).”
Consilience and Life History Theory: From Genes to Brain to Reproductive Strategy. (2006, background): “Thus, a life-history strategy allocates an individual's bioenergetic and material resources among the competing demands of survival and reproduction (Shennan, 2002).”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “Similar observations can be made for technology, such as the replacement of traditional seed corn with hybrid seed corn in Iowa during the 1940s (Henrich 2001; Ryan and Gross 1943), or any number of other well-documented examples of the diffusion of innovations (Rogers 1995) and changing frequencies”
Music as a communicative medium (2009, background): “For such a species, communication is at a premium; any individual's likelihood of survival and reproduction will depend not only on their individual capacity to deal with their physical environment in terms of threats and resources, but also on the optimisation of their capacities to engage with con”
Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, background): “…makes more sense to assume that cost–benefit decisions are made independently, with conformity potentially among the biases in making those decisions (e.g., Boyd & Richerson, 1985, 2005; Gintis, in press; Henrich, 2001, 2004; Henrich & Boyd, 2001; McElreath, Boyd, & Richerson, 2003; Shennan, 2002).”