Cultural Transmission Archives - This View Of Life

Culture

Animal Culture In Monkeys And Whales

We thought humans only have culture. We were wrong.

eiadminApril 25, 2013

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

Human Rites

Rituals bind us, in modern societies and prehistoric tribes alike. But can our loyalties stretch…

Harvey Whitehouse
December 16, 2012

Culture

Culture: the Engine of Human Adaptation

Social Learning Leads to Our Greatest Achievements and Worst Errors.

eiadminDecember 10, 2012

Culture

The Pace of Cultural Evolution

Empirically demonstrating the pace of cultural evolution.

eiadminSeptember 25, 2012

Culture

How Culture Drove Human Evolution

Why we need to stop distinguishing cultural and biological evolution as separate.

eiadminSeptember 8, 2012

CultureMind

Are Taboos Adaptive? Evidence from the Island of Fiji

Are taboos ignorant superstitions, do they contain adaptive wisdom, or are they a mixture of…

David Sloan Wilson
April 20, 2012