Cultural attraction theory (CAT) is a research agenda the purpose of which is to develop
causal explanations of cultural phenomena. CAT is also an evolutionary approach to culture …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Modes of cultural transmission are, by analogy with modes of genetic transmission, ways in
which cultural information is transmitted between individuals. Despite its importance across …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

Evolutionary Epistemology is a naturalistic approach to epistemology which emphasizes the
importance of natural selection in two primary roles. In the first role, selection is the …

The question of how much the outcomes of cultural evolution are shaped by the cognitive
capacities of human learners has been explored in several disciplines, including …

We argue that there is a continuum of cases without any demarcation between more
individual and more cultural information, and that therefore “culture” should be viewed as a …

The purpose of this chapter is to assess the future of Cultural Linguistics (see Chapter 32
this volume) as a tool for exploring a variety of linguistic phenomena along with their intra …

How can evolutionary ideas be applied to the study of social and political institutions?
Charles Darwin identified the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention. He …

In 'The Evolution of Testimony: Receiver Vigilance, Speaker Honesty and the Reliability of
Communication,'Kourken Michaelian questions the basic tenets of our article 'Epistemic …