Culture pervades human lives and has allowed our species to create niches all around the
world and its oceans, in ways quite unlike any other primate. Indeed, our cultural nature …

As social and symbolic animals—animals with language and systems of signs—humans are
informed by two different kinds of heritage, one biological, the other cultural. Scholars have …

Maria Kronfeldner examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change
in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first …

This paper proposes a statistical analysis that captures similarities and differences between
classical music composers with the eventual aim to understand why particular composers …

A vast majority of theoretical perspectives on cultural evolution see the process of creation
as essential for understanding this evolution. However, despite the importance they assign …

One of the greatest challenges for the study of cultural evolution is an explanation of
processes and mechanisms of transmission of cultural traits. Darwinian approach is a …

Koncepcja memu, mimo 40 lat dyskusji, budzi kontrowersje. Problemy stwarzają:
charakterystyka memów jako zjawisk biologicznych, kulturowych i informatycznych …

In a recent article the authors inferred classical composer similarities on the basis of their
common and distinct personal (individual) musical influences. In this paper, the authors …

Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversa ry of his" Origins" are gone, but the
proliferation of books inspired by Darwin goes on. This cumu lative review discusses …

Moral dimension is a characteristic feature of most transformative developments that have
occurred in the course of human history. Moral outrage has fueled numerous upheavals …