Journal article
Enquire Within: Cultural evolution and cognitive science
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Cultural evolution and cognitive science need each other. Cultural evolution needs cognitive science to find out whether the conditions necessary for Darwinian evolution are met in the cultural domain. Cognitive science needs cultural evolution to explain the origins of distinctively human cognitive processes. Focussing on the first question, I argue that cultural evolutionists can get empirical traction on third-way cultural selection by rooting the distinction between replication and rec...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 373
- Pages:
- 20170051
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
- Source identifiers:
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729939
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pubs:729939
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- pubs:729939
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Heyes, C
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Royal Society at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0051
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