Towards a unified science of cultural evolution.

By Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N. Laland. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, background): “…large body of literature on group norms that arise as a consequence of identifiable costs and benefits of cultural traits, quantitative models of random copying of neutral cultural traits are relatively less well developed (see reviews by Eerkens & Lipo, 2005; Mesoudi, Whiten, & Laland, 2006).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…cultural trait transmission occur especially in larger scale societies, and frequencies of cultural traits can vary dramatically within generations and within and across human social groups and societies (Mesoudi et al. 2006, Henrich et al. 2008, Laland and Brown 2011, Godfrey-Smith 2012).”
Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution (2011, methodology): “For example, to estimate the contributions of culture to inclusive heritability, most tools and methods of quantitative genetics can be adapted to explain patterns of cultural evolution in humans and animal”
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations (2009, background): “Bakhtiari Lor (Iranian) Central Zagros Field survey Boyer Ahmad Lor (Iranian) Southern Zagros Field survey Papi Lor (Iranian) Northern Zagros Mortensen and Nicolaisen (1993) Qashqa'i Oghuz (Turk) Southern Zagros Field survey Shahsevan Oghuz (Turk) Western Caspian Sea Tanavoli (1985) Yomut Turkmen Og”
A demographic model for Palaeolithic technological evolution: The case of East Asia and the Movius Line (2010, background): “Nevertheless, many workers in the fields of psychology, primatology, archaeology, and anthropology are recognising the analytical potential of modelling cultural transmission as a process with broad resemblances to genetic transmission and inheritance (Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman, 1981; Boyd and Rich”
Evolution in Archaeology (2008, background): “…may be modeled in evolutionary terms remains disputed (e.g., Bamforth 2002; Fracchia & Lewontin 1999, 2005), although the way in which cultural entities and processes closely match Darwin’s original formulation of the theory of evolution has recently been shown in detail by Mesoudi et al. (2006).”
Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “…many effects are probably not adaptations and because sediment is typically a collective, co-constructed product rather than an individual product that may comprise the byproducts of several species’ niche-constructing activities (Lohrer et al. 2004; Meysman et al. 2006; Corenblit et al. 2011).”
Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance (2020, neutral): “Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias 35 for example, the survey of Mesoudi, Whiten, and Laland (2006)).”
Distinguishing the reflective, algorithmic, and autonomous minds: Is it time for a tri-process theory? (2008, background): “Although the idea of contaminated mindware is controversial (see Aunger, 2000) many theorists speculating on the properties of cultural replication would admit such a possibility (Blackmore, 1999, 2005; Dennett, 1991, 2006; Distin, 2005; Hull, 2000; Mesoudi et al., 2006).”
Towards a Developmental Turn in Evolutionary Economic Geography? (2015, background): “…anthropologists and cultural theorists have begun to examine EDB to ascertain what its implications might be for their disciplines (e.g., MESOUDI et al., 2006; WIMSATT, 2006; SMITH and RUPPLE, 2011), and behavioural psychologists are applying DST in their field (e.g., LERNER, 2006;…”
Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction (2011, background): “Cultural and biological evolution differ in important respects too, and many of the same caveats that pertain to the ontogenetic level apply again at the cultural level (Mesoudi et al. 2004, 2006).”
Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007, background): “Mesoudi et al. (2006) therefore argued that this bias for social information represents a biologically evolved bias in cultural transmission.”