Darwinism and cultural change
Darwinism and cultural change
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2012.0118
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发表时间：
2012-08-05
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
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作者：
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
文化变迁的进化模型在试图解释人类进化的过程中发挥了重要作用，特别是我们在知识收集和对环境的智能控制方面的专业化。在生物和文化的变化中，不同的解释模式与不同的分析“颗粒”和与不同的解释目标相关的上下文变得相关。对文化进化方法的现有处理，无论是积极的还是消极的，都低估了这些区别的重要性。对分析颗粒的密切关注促使文化进化的三种可能模式之间的差异，每一种模式都与不同的经验假设和解释角色相关。
Evolutionary models of cultural change have acquired an important role in attempts to explain the course of human evolution, especially our specialization in knowledge-gathering and intelligent control of environments. In both biological and cultural change, different patterns of explanation become relevant at different 'grains' of analysis and in contexts associated with different explanatory targets. Existing treatments of the evolutionary approach to culture, both positive and negative, underestimate the importance of these distinctions. Close attention to grain of analysis motivates distinctions between three possible modes of cultural evolution, each associated with different empirical assumptions and explanatory roles.