The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account

By Pat Barclay, D. Krupp. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014

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Abstract Richerson et al. establish cultural group selection as a plausible force in human social evolution. However, they do not demonstrate its causal precedence for any trait, let alone its “essentialness.” To do so, they must show that a particular group trait was caused by cultural transmission, and directly caused differences in group fitness.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e5d85f599742adfb09f515351b7853f804421de9

Citations in the corpus

• Brain Plasticity and Human Evolution (2017, unknown): “Learning of languages, attitudes, belief systems, and technologies all may serve to mark social group identity and facilitate cooperative sharing of resources and skills (Richerson et al. 2016).”