Are there enough cultural evolution deniers that it would be useful to do a post explaining it and linking to good intro sources?
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Aforementioned 162-page rudder evolution thesis that all the cool kids are reading http://anthropology.tamu.edu/papers/Mott-MA1991.pdf … plus tl;dr http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Boyd%20Richerson%20Henrich%20The%20cultural%20evolution%20of%20technology%207.pdf …
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@sarahdoingthing oh sure if you're just gonna randomly assume that Europeans are as smart as Inuit you can prove anything - 1 more reply
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@sarahdoingthing multilevel selection is a rich seam of insight, unfortunately it's a perfect example of a Hofstadter-type tangled hierarchy -
@svigalae was thinking more about this - it only got "tangled" recently, as pre-modern transmission was mostly vertical (parent-->child) - 1 more reply
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@sarahdoingthing I have totally read that thesis, cover to cover -
@svigalae really?? isn't it weirdly compelling? - 2 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing The question is whether technological evolution is the whole of cultural evolution ... -
@sarahdoingthing ... or, indeed, even counter-balanced by socio-political devolution. - 4 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing if cultural evolution is real why are there still conservatives -
@admittedlyhuman@sarahdoingthing this clique fits the personalities of its members *perfectly* .. you can't tell me god didn't make that
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