The evolution of cultural evolution
The evolution of cultural evolution
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.10110
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
McElreath, R
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作者：
Henrich, J;McElreath, R
人类在其环境范围以及其行为适应的性质和多样性方面是独一无二的。虽然我们的物种中存在着各种各样的局部遗传适应，但似乎可以肯定的是，相同的基本遗传禀赋产生了北极觅食，热带园艺和沙漠畜牧业，这是一个星座，代表了比其他灵长类动物更广泛的生存行为。解释人类巨大成功的行为适应是文化的，因为它们通过社会学习在个体之间传播，并经过几代人的积累。要理解这种文化进化适应是如何以及何时出现的，就需要理解作为人类社会学习基础的心理机制的进化和文化系统的进化（种群）动力学。
Humans are unique in their range of environments and in the nature and diversity of their behavioral adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species, it seems certain that the same basic genetic endowment produces arctic foraging, tropical horticulture, and desert pastoralism, a constellation that represents a greater range of subsistence behavior than the rest of the Primate Order combined. The behavioral adaptations that explain the immense success of our species are cultural in the sense that they are transmitted among individuals by social learning and have accumulated over generations. Understanding how and when such culturally evolved adaptations arise requires understanding of both the evolution of the psychological mechanisms that underlie human social learning and the evolutionary (population) dynamics of cultural systems.