cultural evolution

collocation in English

meaningsofculturalandevolution

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cultural
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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evolution
noun[U]
uk
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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(Definition ofculturalandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For humans, cultural information may be expressed in niche construction, but that does not makeculturalevolutionthe same thing as niche construction.
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It is not to be confused with social orculturalevolution, to which it stands in stark opposition.
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In the context of extraterrestrial life, even a theory of universal biological evolution does not yet exist, much less a theory of universalculturalevolution.
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Culturalevolutionis a term that loosely describes the process of cultural change.
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That series of inventions, by which man from age to age has remade his environment, is a new kind of evolution-not biological, butculturalevolution.
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Culturalevolution, on the other hand, involves more than just the effects of genes through more than one pathway.
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Aculturalevolutionmodel with time-dependent social learning might address some of their concerns.
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Perhaps the study of observational learning andculturalevolutionwill shed some light on this.
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Finally,culturalevolutionis not directly dependent on the transmission mechanism.
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The balance between the costs and benefits of religion will vary depending upon the phase of an individual society'sculturalevolution.
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He outlines an energetics approach which merges physical, biological andculturalevolutioninto a unified whole.
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She seems to take the view that theculturalevolutionof norms somehow presents difficulties for our conceptualization.
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For example, whereasculturalevolutionis relatively swift biological evolution may take many generations to reveal itself.
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The replicator dynamics are a model ofculturalevolution.
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But if the only thing people did was to adapt to existing ideational environments,culturalevolutionwould stagnate.
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Culturalevolutioninvolves the effects of several mechanisms.
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It has even been argued that of the two creative forces,culturalevolutionhas been the more prolific in the production of innovations.
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Can theculturalevolutionof higher ethical values gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution?
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This leads to the fourth theme - the challenge to some aspects of linguistic innatism coming from studies ofculturalevolution.
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Finally, consider human society as an example ofculturalevolution.
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