Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

By Alex Mesoudi. Evolutionary biology, 2015

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/66633ea05e0e144c11ba5405218d74e16e3d2e3f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cultural Studies

1. Lucy M. Aplin

In Social Psychology

1. Lucy M. Aplin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Lucy M. Aplin

Citations in the corpus

• Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence (2019, background): “…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 investigated (Laland & Rendell, 2013; Whiten, 2005, 2017b;…”
• When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings (2024, unknown): “By cultural , we refer to the definition traditionally used in the cultural evolution literature, where it refers to any type of socially transmitted information (Mesoudi, 2016).”