Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies

2015/04/21 by Alex Mesoudi · 315 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cultural Differences and Values #Environmental ethics #Epistemology #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Language and cultural evolution #Philosophy #Psychology #Sociology

paper · open access · doi:10.1007/s11692-015-9320-0

published in Evolutionary Biology 43(4), 481-497 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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