How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection.
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چکیده
Driven by intergroup competition, social norms, beliefs, and practices can evolve in ways that more effectively tap into a wide variety of evolved psychological mechanisms to foster group-beneficial behavior. The more powerful such evolved mechanisms are, the more effectively culture can potentially harness and manipulate them to generate greater phenotypic variation across groups, thereby fueling cultural group selection.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
دوره 39 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016