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Traditions and transitions.

Psychoanalytic review

Allan G.
PMID: 8073107
Psychoanal Rev. 1994;81(1):79-100.

No abstract available.

Hell of a theory.

The Behavioral and brain sciences

Krueger JI.
PMID: 26948734
Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e17. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15000473.

The theory of group-selected Big God religions is a master narrative of cultural evolution. The evidence is a positive manifold of correlated assumptions and variables. Although provocative, the theory is overly elastic. Its critical ingredient - belief in Big...

Medical champions can make a difference in initiating culture change.

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)

Lehtonen L, Axelin A.
PMID: 27514001
Acta Paediatr. 2016 Sep;105(9):994-5. doi: 10.1111/apa.13482.

No abstract available.

[Can the two "cultural phenomena" information and creativeness be integrated? A comment on the newly published book "Information and creation: integrating the 'two cultures'" German A. Golitsyn, Vladimir M. Petrow.--Basel, Boston; Birkhäuser, Berlin 1995].

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

Spitzy KH.
PMID: 8677666
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1996;108(7):214-6.

No abstract available.

Evolution in action. Slowly, and with pressure from the scientific community, the structure and mission of a European Research Council begins to develop.

EMBO reports

Breithaupt H.
PMID: 12671673
EMBO Rep. 2003 Apr;4(4):336-8. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor814.

No abstract available.

Evolution of social learning does not explain the origin of human cumulative culture.

Journal of theoretical biology

Enquist M, Ghirlanda S.
PMID: 17275852
J Theor Biol. 2007 May 07;246(1):129-35. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.12.022. Epub 2006 Dec 27.

Because culture requires transmission of information between individuals, thinking about the origin of culture has mainly focused on the genetic evolution of abilities for social learning. Current theory considers how social learning affects the adaptiveness of a single cultural...

The cultural evolution of words and other thinking tools.

Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology

Dennett DC.
PMID: 19687141
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2009;74:435-41. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.008. Epub 2009 Aug 17.

The emergence of language and culture is one of the major transitions in evolution (Maynard Smith and Szathmary 1995), and the key to the cumulative nature of cultural transmission in Homo sapiens as contrasted with other species is the...

[The ethno-sociological expedition of Jozef Obrebski to Polesie, 1934-37: organization, research methods, problems, participants].

Etnografia polska

Engelking A.
PMID: 18210689
Etnogr Pol. 2001;45(1):23-45.

No abstract available.

Culturomics: periodicals gauge culture's pulse.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Schwartz T.
PMID: 21454770
Science. 2011 Apr 01;332(6025):35-6; author reply 36-7. doi: 10.1126/science.332.6025.35-c.

No abstract available.

Ethos of independence across regions in the United States: the production-adoption model of cultural change.

The American psychologist

Kitayama S, Conway LG, Pietromonaco PR, Park H, Plaut VC.
PMID: 20822197
Am Psychol. 2010 Sep;65(6):559-74. doi: 10.1037/a0020277.

Contemporary U.S. culture has a highly individualistic ethos. Nevertheless, exactly how this ethos was historically fostered remains unanalyzed. A new model of dynamic cultural change maintains that sparsely populated, novel environments that impose major threats to survival, such as...

Studying language change using price equation and Pólya-urn dynamics.

PloS one

Gong T, Shuai L, Tamariz M, Jäger G.
PMID: 22427981
PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33171. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033171. Epub 2012 Mar 12.

Language change takes place primarily via diffusion of linguistic variants in a population of individuals. Identifying selective pressures on this process is important not only to construe and predict changes, but also to inform theories of evolutionary dynamics of...

Generative inference for cultural evolution.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

Kandler A, Powell A.
PMID: 29440522
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018 Apr 05;373(1743). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0056.

One of the major challenges in cultural evolution is to understand why and how various forms of social learning are used in human populations, both now and in the past. To date, much of the theoretical work on social...

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