Culture And The Evolutionary Process

By Mario Baum. 2016

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “haps a sociocultural conformity bias makes people less likely to accept novel innovations of common words, a mechanism analogous to the biological process of purifying selection (Boyd and Richerson, 1988; Pagel et al., 2007).”
Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices (2021, background): “1As anthropologists Boyd and Richerson (1988) write, “humans adjust their [cultural] phenotypes in response to their environments through learning and rational calculation” (p. 9). 2Jayachandran (2015) reviews the literature on patrilocality and its link to old age support by sons, Banerjee et al. (”
The Evolution of Morality (2015, background): “Indeed, eminent evolutionary theorists such as Boyd and Richerson (1985), Dawkins (1989), Darwin (1871) and Williams (1989) have attributed morality to reason and social learning. Mechanisms that mediate these processes evolved because they enabled our ancestors to adapt to their social and physical”
Societal threat and cultural variation in the strength of social norms: An evolutionary basis (2015, neutral): “…behaviors, agents' strategies represent behaviors; and reproduction is not necessarily biological, but may be interpreted as the processes of learning (Harley, 1981) or the cultural transmission and change of memes, behaviors, and norms in human societies (Boyd & Richerson, 1988; Dawkins, 2006).”
Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research (2019, background): “Often interactions between processes on both timescales are significant, as in cases of gene-culture co-evolution (Boyd and Richerson, 1988).”
On the dynamics of social hierarchy: A longitudinal investigation of the rise and fall of prestige, dominance, and social rank in naturalistic task groups (2019, background): “…prestige-based social rank may have developed dynamically alongside the remarkable capacity for cultural learning that humans exhibit, with cultural learning providing an opportunity for prestige-based rank and also being propagated by prestige (Boyd & Richerson, 1988; Henrich & McElreath, 2003).”
How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science (2017, background): “For instance, it distinguishes between the operations of source-based and content-based processes (a distinction that is, admittedly, hardly unique to this framework, see, e.g., Boyd & Richerson, 1985).”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “Prestige-based rank is thought to be unique to humans, because it relies on cultural learning, which is considered to be less developed in other animals (Boyd and Richerson 1985; Laland and Galef 2009).”
Imitative and Direct Learning as Interacting Factors in Life History Evolution (2017, positive): “A related variation that affects what evolves has the choice of which individual to imitate based on some form of cultural measure, which might correspond to just one small aspect of behavior, or, in the extreme case, have no correlation at all with biological performance [9, 43].”
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change (2017, methodology): “We attempt to make progress on these questions by testing for a determinant that has emerged from the theoretical evolutionary anthropology literature as being important (e.g. Boyd and Richerson, 1985; Aoki and Feldman, 1987; Rogers, 1988; Feldman et al., 1996; Boyd and Richerson, 2005).”
The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture (2015, background): “It is for these 99 reasons that many scientists argue that imitation may also mediate the gradual and 100 incremental nature of human cumulative cultural evolution, a process also referred to as 101 ̳ratcheting‘ (Boyd and Richerson, 1985; Tomasello et al., 1993; Tomasello, 1999; Shea, 2009; 102 Dean”
The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016, positive): “…important, because it tends to homogenize behavior within groups, increasing between group variation relative to within group variation (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Henrich & Boyd, 1998), strengthening the effect of intergroup competition on cultural variation (Chudek, Muthukrishna, &…”
The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions (2015, background): “EES-style thinking has already contributed constructively to several research questions, including: how do complex novel traits originate? [27,49,57,131,135–137]; how does inclusive inheritance affect the evolutionary process? [60–63,67,68,79,80,138–140]; and how do macro-evolutionary patterns arise”