The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a critical review of key Darwinian models of cultural evolution, to show to what extent and how cultural change is analogous to biological evolution and to propose conceptual and formal models to study cultural evolution in this perspective. Three separate theories are studied. Memetic is based on the idea that a psychological mechanism analogous to the replication in biology exists in the cultural domain. We show that imitation is not faithful enough to play this role and therefore that the memetic model cannot serve as a basis for a general theory of cultural phenomena. The theory of gene culture co-evolution is based on the idea that selection is a dominant factor of evolution and argues that ther...
The claim that human culture evolves through the differential adoption of cultural variants, in a ma...
We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the str...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a critical review of key Darwinian models of cultural evolu...
International audienceDarwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a populati...
The advocates of memetics seek to construct a theory of culture on the basis of an analogy with biol...
In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and biologica...
In the field of cultural evolution it is generally assumed that the study of culture and cultural ch...
Cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process, comprising the three Darwinian princip...
Charles Darwin, the founder of the idea of natural selection, believed that this selection is not li...
Abstract Recent debates about memetics have revealed some widespread mis-understandings about Darwin...
Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broad...
The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.comCultural evolution...
© 2015, The Author(s). Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolv...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
The claim that human culture evolves through the differential adoption of cultural variants, in a ma...
We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the str...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a critical review of key Darwinian models of cultural evolu...
International audienceDarwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a populati...
The advocates of memetics seek to construct a theory of culture on the basis of an analogy with biol...
In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and biologica...
In the field of cultural evolution it is generally assumed that the study of culture and cultural ch...
Cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process, comprising the three Darwinian princip...
Charles Darwin, the founder of the idea of natural selection, believed that this selection is not li...
Abstract Recent debates about memetics have revealed some widespread mis-understandings about Darwin...
Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broad...
The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.comCultural evolution...
© 2015, The Author(s). Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolv...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
The claim that human culture evolves through the differential adoption of cultural variants, in a ma...
We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the str...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...