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Culture

Can Cultural Evolution Help Integrate the Social Sciences?

If we combine evolution with embodiment and complexity, a coherent School of Social Sciences feels…

Joe Brewer
March 6, 2017

Culture

Man Bites Dog: Cultural Evolution According to a Cultural Anthropologist

Review of Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society, by…

David Sloan Wilson
October 21, 2015

CultureEconomy

Dismantling The Paradigm In The Social Sciences

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics.

Robert Kadar
March 1, 2013

Culture

Genes Mix Faster Than Stories

Folk tales' 'DNA' shows that people would sooner have sex with strangers than tell their…

eiadminFebruary 5, 2013

BiologyCulture

Cultural Evolution Changes Bird Song

Thanks to cultural evolution, male Savannah sparrows are changing their tune, partly to attract “the…

eiadminJanuary 30, 2013

Culture

Culture: the Engine of Human Adaptation

Social Learning Leads to Our Greatest Achievements and Worst Errors.

eiadminDecember 10, 2012

Politics

War and Violence on the Decline in Modern Times

Political Scientist Joshua Goldstein and Psychologist Steven Pinker discuss arguments on the decline of violence.

eiadminOctober 10, 2012

Politics

Amazonian tribal warfare sheds light on modern violence

New evidence reveals similarities in Amazonian and modern warfare

eiadminOctober 5, 2012

Culture

The Pace of Cultural Evolution

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

eiadminSeptember 25, 2012

Culture

Conflict and ‘Boom-Bust’ Explain Humans’ Rapid Evolution

What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past…

eiadminSeptember 15, 2012