Framework for children aims to produce “cultural change”
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An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange.
Dawkins' replicator-based conception of evolution has led to widespread mis-application of selectionism across the social sciences because it does not address the paradox that necessitated the theory of natural selection in the first place: how do organisms accumulate change when traits acquired over their lifetime are obliterated? This is addressed by von Neumann's concept of a self-replicatin...
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Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these “cultural universals” is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...
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The commentators have brought a wealth of new perspectives to the question of how culture evolves. Each of their diverse disciplines--ranging from psychology to biology to anthropology to economics to engineering--has a valuable contribution to make to our understanding of this complex, multifaceted topic. Though the vast majority of their comments were supportive of my approach, it is natural ...
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Looking across human societies reveals regularities in the languages that people speak and the concepts that they use. One explanation that has been proposed for these "cultural universals" is differences in the ease with which people learn particular languages and concepts. A difference in learnability means that languages and concepts possessing a particular property are more likely to be acc...
متن کاملCommentary on "An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange" by Liane Gabora.
This is an outstanding paper. There is surely some truth to the notion that culture evolves, but the Darwinian view of culture is trivial. Consider the following example: the economic evolution from the Turing machine, to the mainframe computer, to personal computer, to word processing, file sharing, the Web, and selling things on the web. In what sense is selling on the web a mutant variant of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.699