The evolution of cultural evolution

By Joseph Henrich, R. Mcelreath. 2003

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

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Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution (2011, background): “More recently, cultural evolution has been theoretically demonstrated to provide an important source of biodiversity through speciatio”
One cultural parent makes no culture (2010, background): “Note that the problem we study here is the likelihood of obtaining a trait, whereas most discussions of success bias have dealt with variants of a given trait (see e.g. Boyd & Richerson 1985; Henrich & McElreath 2003), which is a different issue.”
Religious actions speak louder than words: exposure to credibility-enhancing displays predicts theism (2017, background): “Second, some relevant cognitive biases may have evolved precisely to allow human beings to better benefit from social learning (Henrich & McElreath, 2003; Richerson & Boyd, 2005).”
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011, background): “As a consequence, our species is addicted to culture, and the vast bulk of preferences, motivations, attitudes and beliefs are – or can be – influenced by transmission from other members of their social group (Henrich and McElreath 2003). We argue that a scientific understanding of the origins of re”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, neutral): “creation of memeplexes [6, 42], and more realistic mechanisms for dealing with cognitive dissonance J.”
Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state (2012, background): “These indirect biases, or context-dependent (Henrich & McElreath, 2003) modelbased biases, include characteristics such as the model's age.”
Vygotskian Autotelic Artificial Intelligence: Language and Culture Internalization for Human-Like AI (2022, background): “80 Through shared cultural artefacts such as narratives, we learn to share common values, customs and social norms, we learn how to navigate the world, what to attend to, how to think, what to expect from others, etc. 81 This cultural knowledge is readily accessible to children as they enter…”
Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects (2013, background): “Social learning can be an evolutionarily adaptive strategy, and the equilibrium solutions reached by it will often be the fitnessmaximizing ones under reasonable assumptions (Henrich and McElreath 2003).”
Social learning strategies (2004, background): “Similar, if less extensive, treatments can be found in Laland (2001) and Henrich and McElreath (2003).”
Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission (2008, background): “Conformity is a type of social learning that has received considerable attention among social psychologists and human evolutionary ecologists, but existing empirical research does not identify conformity cleanly.”