Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe)
Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson · 2024
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Description
Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson published a reflective essay in twenty twenty-four on the field they helped found: cultural evolution. About fifty years ago, work by Cavalli-Sforza, Feldman, and the two authors began applying population biology's ideas to how culture changes. The seed became a vital field with many publications and its own scientific society.
Writing as insiders, they recount the origins from their own vantage and take stock of what the approach has explained. They close by naming the questions still open, including where the field might head next, hedged with a parenthetical maybe. The essay doubles as memoir and agenda: a founding generation handing the unsolved problems to its successors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |