On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations

By Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd. 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Thought and Behavior Contagion in Capital Markets (2008, unknown): “We can distinguish an informational hierarchy and a payoff hierarchy in sources of convergence or divergence (see also Hirshleifer and Teoh (2003a)).”
In defence of generalized Darwinism (2008, background): “14See Bannister (1979) and Hodgson (2004b) on social Darwinism, and Segerstråle (2000) on the reactions of social scientists to sociobiology.”
Social learning across the life cycle: cultural knowledge acquisition for honey collection among the Jenu Kuruba, India ☆ (2012, background): “Learning from kin can reduce learning costs, but copying nonrelatives increases the potential for sampling adaptive cultural variants (Henrich & Boyd, 2002; Richerson & Boyd, 2005; Henrich & Boyd, 1998).”
Individual and cultural learning in stag hunt games with multiple actions (2010, methodology): “Figure 3 contains the flow diagram for the replicator dynamics, and then, in Figure 4, we characterize the basins of attraction for replicator dynamics.”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “As noted above, this again rests on a misunderstanding: Darwinian evolution does not require discrete replicators, and many cultural evolution models assume the blending inheritance of continuously varying cultural traits (Henrich and Boyd 2002).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, methodology): “Even in this case, however, evolutionary models are still applicable (Henrich & Boyd 2002).”
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012, background): “In previous work, it has been argued that both spatial variation in fitness (McElreath et al. (in press)) and inaccurate imitation (Henrich & Boyd, 2002) favor an increased the reliance on conformism.”
How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals. (2014, background): “A variety of mechanisms work to make genetic replication incredibly accurate, but it is less clear what makes cultural transmission faithful, or how much fidelity is necessary (see Dawkins 1982; Henrich & Boyd 2002; Henrich et al. 2008).”
The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016, unknown): “…on this, a large body of theoretical research has explored the conditions under which natural selection will favor various learning strategies (Boyd & Richerson, 1985, 1988, 1996; Henrich & Boyd, 1998, 2002; King & Cowlishaw, 2007; Nakahashi, Wakano & Henrich, 2012; Perreault, Moya, & Boyd, 2012).”