Human Cultures are Primarily Adaptive at the Group Level (with comment)

Keywords

Adaptation (eye), Diversity (politics), Argument (complex analysis), Trait, Human culture

References

• The Recognition Signal Hypothesis for the Adaptive Evolution of ReligionLuke J. Matthews — 2012
• The evolution of cultural diversity : a phylogenetic approachR. Mace, C. Holden, Stephanie Shennan — 2005
• Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human EvolutionMartin H. Levinson — 2006
• Made By Each Other: Organisms and Their EnvironmentKim Sterelny — 2005
• Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific SettlementRussell D. Gray, Alexei J. Drummond, Simon J. Greenhill — 2009
• Religious Studies as a Life ScienceJoseph Bulbulia, Joseph Bulbulia, Edward Slingerland — 2012
• The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist ProgramRichard Sosis — 2009
• Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfareSarah Mathew, Robert Boyd — 2011
• Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the PacificThomas E. Currie, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray — 2010
• Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical reviewJeffrey P. Schloss, Michael J. Murray — 2011
• Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from AfricaQuentin D. Atkinson — 2011
• From bridewealth to dowry?Laura Fortunato, Clare Holden, Ruth Mace — 2006
• Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European historyMark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson, Andrew Meade — 2007
• Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practiceZiheng Yang, Bruce Rannala — 2012
• Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problemsJoseph Bulbulia — 2011
• Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language familyRemco Bouckaert, Philippe Lemey, Michael Dunn — 2012
• Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traitsThomas E. Currie, Simon J. Greenhill, Ruth Mace — 2010
• Cultural inheritance or cultural diffusion of religious violence? A quantitative case study of the Radical ReformationLuke J. Matthews, Jeffrey Edmonds, Wesley J. Wildman — 2013
• Human language as a culturally transmitted replicatorMark Pagel — 2009
• Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makesRussell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson, Simon J. Greenhill — 2011

Cited by

• A Historical Database of Sociocultural EvolutionPeter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François — 2012
• Cultural species and their ecosystemsDavid Sloan Wilson — 2014
• Epistemic Petrification and the Restoration of Epistemic Trust: A New Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Psychosocial Treatment.Peter Fonagy, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison — 2015
• When Is Truth Relevant?Elizabeth Allison, Peter Fonagy — 2016
• Cultural diversity really is like biological diversity: reply to comments on The Nature of Religious Diversity: A Cultural Ecosystem ApproachDavid Sloan Wilson, Yasha Hartberg, Ian Macdonald — 2017
• The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human cultureCarlos A. Botero, Luke J. Harmon, Quentin D. Atkinson — 2017
• On the evolution of tightness-looseness in cultural ecosystemsJoshua Conrad Jackson, Michele J. Gelfand — 2017
• The Evolution of Evolutionary Explanations of Culture: How and Why Can a Critical Evaluation of Costly Signalling Theory Enhance Our Understanding of Cultural Practices?Amy Elizabeth Robertson Searfoss — 2016
• ¿Qué es cultura en la «economía de la cultura»? Definiendo la cultura para crear modelos mensurables en economía culturalAníbal Monasterio Astobiza — 2017
• Youth suicide in New Zealand: a discussion paperPeter D. Gluckman — 2017
• What is Right and What is Wrong in the Darwinian Approach to the Study of ReligionKonrad Szocik — 2019
• Economics with a Phylogenetic SignatureKurt Dopfer — 2013
• The Evolution of Evolutionary Explanations of Culture: How and Why Can a Critical Evaluation of Costly Signalling Theory Enhance Our Understanding of Cultural Practices?Amy Elizabeth Robertson Searfoss — 2016
• The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human cultureDavid Sloan Wilsona, Yasha Hartbergb, Ian MacDonaldb — 2016
• On the nature of tightness-looseness in cultural ecosystemsDavid Sloan Wilsona, Yasha Hartbergb, Ian MacDonaldb — 2016
• of Theoretical and Mathematical History UC RiversidePeter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François — 2013

Related papers

• Trudy Govier and Premise AdequacyDerek Allen — 2013
• Drought, Wellbeing and Adaptive Capacity: Why Do Some People Stay Well?Emma Austin, Tonelle Handley, Anthony S. Kiem — 2020
• Subjective Rationality and the Reasoning ArgumentErhan Demircioğlu — 2023
• Are Technologies Innocent? : Part Two: Human Exclusivity - Only Humans Can Be Held to Moral Account [Commentary-Series]Matthew Arnold, Christopher Pearce — 2016
• Verification: The Hysteron Proteron ArgumentFrancis Jeffry Pelletier, Bernard Linsky — 2018
• The Analysis of Trial Mode Concerning Oral Argument:From the Perspective of Procedural EfficiencyLI Xi-lia — 2009
• The Third Man ArgumentDr Bailey — 2009