Culture and the Evolutionary Process

By A. Zihlman, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson. 1988

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “ifﬁths, 2010). Or perhaps a sociocultural conformity bias makes people less likely to accept novel innovations of common words, a mechanism analogous to the biological process of purifying selection (Boyd and Richerson, 1988; Pagel et al., 2007). Moreover, such mechanisms may also be partially respo”
Evolution of the social contract (2014, methodology): “One solution to this problem is given by Boyd et al. [2010], who argues that if the action A hurt the individual at a personal level, but helps the group as a whole, then it is possible that between-group competition can support invasion.”
Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game (2004, methodology): “However, the contexts in which reciprocity and revenge are called forth, and the levels of reciprocal or vengeful behavior elicited, will vary according to evolved (and evolving) cultural norms (Boyd and Richerson, 1985).”
Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence (2019, background): “…Rendell, Osborne, & Wursig, 2004; Whiten, 2011), and even could function as a ‘second inheritance system’ to genetic evolution; while vital in humans (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Boyd, Richerson, & Henrich, 2011; Mesoudi, 2015), the importance of this in other animals has only just begun to be…”
Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, unknown): “4 See Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman (1981) and (2001, ch.6), Boyd and Richerson (1985, 2005).”
Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology (2001, background): “This could occur simply because, in other domains, it pays to imitate the rich ( Boyd & Richerson, 1985 ).”
Risk, Cooperation and the Economic origins of social Trust: an empirical Investigation (2009, unknown): “Previous research in evolutionary anthropology on social learning (Boyd and Richerson, 1985, 1995) provides a good theoretical framework to study the emergence of mutual trust.”
Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy (2007, background): “…rather, has developed through an interaction between relatively ancient evolved disease-avoidance reactions and social learning mechanisms, unique to humans (Boyd & Richerson, 1985), which have operated in conjunction with historical experience and cultural memory passed on through the generations.”