How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection

Joseph Henrich; Robert Boyd

doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000138

How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection

Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd

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Driven by intergroup competition social norms beliefs and practices can evolve in ways that more effectively tap into a wide variety of evolved psychological mechanisms to foster group-beneficial behavior. The more powerful such evolved mechanisms are the more effectively culture can potentially harness and manipulate them to generate greater phenotypic variation across groups thereby fueling cultural group selection.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e40
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15000138
State	Published - 2016

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Behavioral Neuroscience
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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