The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

By Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Computational models of collective behavior. (2005, background): “collective action [31], the transmission of cultural elements over generations [ 32 ], the”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “…hinging on social perceptions of other people offer more insights into how cultural patterns change, such as why some longstanding practices persist while others degrade or spread to new populations (e.g., Berger & Heath, 2008; Gelfand et al., 2011; Kuran & Sunstein, 1999; Richerson & Boyd, 2005).”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “Many phenomena discussed by evolutionary theorists concerning culture (e.g., Campbell 1965; Richerson & Boyd 2005) – including those described by memetheorists (e.g., Blackmore 1999; Dawkins 1976; Dennett 1995) – fall into this latter category.”
Conditional mate preferences: Factors influencing preferences for height (2008, background): “The ability to form, attend to, and internalize social norms is an important feature of evolved human psychology ( Boyd & Richerson, 2005 ), and social norms play a role in reflecting and determining what is considered physically attractive (Tovee et al., 2006).”
Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East–West Differences (2011, methodology): “When talking about human cultures, we focus on the latter styles of adapting to different environmental changes, the result of which are cultures and cultural differences ( Boyd and Richerson 2005 ).”
An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs (2008, background): “The majority of this work has involved the construction and analysis of formal mathematical models of cultural processes (e.g., Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman, 1981; Boyd & Richerson, 1985, 2005 ) drawing on the methods of theoretical population genetics.”