The adaptive nature of culture

By M. Alvard. 2003

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/59561b8aa90aefe0c7f0e7385eeb2a5d2861103a

How researchers see this paper

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In Cultural Studies

1. Curtis W. Marean
2. J. Riel‐Salvatore
3. Gabriel M Popescu
4. J. Marty Anderies
5. C. M. Barton
6. C. Henshilwood
7. Ian Cross

In Social Psychology

1. Curtis W. Marean
2. C. Henshilwood

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Riel‐Salvatore
2. Gabriel M Popescu
3. J. Marty Anderies
4. Curtis W. Marean
5. C. M. Barton
6. C. Henshilwood

Citations in the corpus

• Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia (2011, background): “” Important to understanding the dynamics of Upper Pleistocene human ecology is a broad and rapidly growing consensus that a large portion of human behavior is the phenotypic expression of a cumulative body of information transmitted between individuals by social learning rather than genes— often gl”
• The Origin of Modern Human Behavior (2003, background): “The body of knowledge that a society accumulates over its history, combined with an ability to adapt to novel situations if required, allows one generation to build upon the experience of its precursors (Alvard 2003, Tomasello 1999, Boyd and Richerson 1985).”