The term cultural evolution has become popular in the evolutionary human sciences, but it is often unclear what is meant by it. This is generating confusion and misconceptions that are hindering progress in the field. These include the claim that behavioral ecology disregards culture. We argue that these misunderstandings are caused by the unhelpful use of term cultural evolution to identify both a phenomenon—culture changing through time—and a theory to explain it—the potential role of cultural transmission biases in driving this change. We illustrate this point by considering recently published influential studies and opinion pieces. If we are to avoid confusion, the term cultural evolution is best reserved to identify the phenomenon of c...
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Advancing a general Darwinian framework to explain...
In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and biologica...
Cultural evolution is an interdisciplinary, rapidly developing, scientific framework aiming to provi...
The term cultural evolution has become popular in the evolutionary human sciences, but it is often u...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
Despite a growing number of social scientists who view the evolution of culture as a Darwinian proce...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
In recent decades a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of behavior throu...
© 2015, The Author(s). Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolv...
The last quarter century has seen a renaissance of the proposal that the processes Darwin put forth ...
'Cultural evolution' as a field applies the insight that cultural change may be like biological evol...
Culture pervades human lives and has allowed our species to create niches all around the world and i...
AcceptedThis is the author version of a paper subsequently published in Evolutionary Biology. The f...
Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broad...
Evolutionary developmental theories in biology see the processes and organization of organisms as cr...
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Advancing a general Darwinian framework to explain...
In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and biologica...
Cultural evolution is an interdisciplinary, rapidly developing, scientific framework aiming to provi...
The term cultural evolution has become popular in the evolutionary human sciences, but it is often u...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
Despite a growing number of social scientists who view the evolution of culture as a Darwinian proce...
Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies betwe...
In recent decades a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of behavior throu...
© 2015, The Author(s). Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolv...
The last quarter century has seen a renaissance of the proposal that the processes Darwin put forth ...
'Cultural evolution' as a field applies the insight that cultural change may be like biological evol...
Culture pervades human lives and has allowed our species to create niches all around the world and i...
AcceptedThis is the author version of a paper subsequently published in Evolutionary Biology. The f...
Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broad...
Evolutionary developmental theories in biology see the processes and organization of organisms as cr...
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Advancing a general Darwinian framework to explain...
In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and biologica...
Cultural evolution is an interdisciplinary, rapidly developing, scientific framework aiming to provi...