TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding cultural clusters
T2 - An ethnographic perspective
AU - Wiessner, Polly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2022/9/13
Y1 - 2022/9/13
N2 - The cultural evolutionary approach to the dynamics of cumulative culture is insufficient for understanding how culture affects heritability estimates; it ignores the agency of individuals and internal complexity of social groups that drive cultural evolution. Both environmental and social selection need consideration. The WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) problem has never plagued anthropology: A wealth of ethnography is available for the problem at hand.
AB - The cultural evolutionary approach to the dynamics of cumulative culture is insufficient for understanding how culture affects heritability estimates; it ignores the agency of individuals and internal complexity of social groups that drive cultural evolution. Both environmental and social selection need consideration. The WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) problem has never plagued anthropology: A wealth of ethnography is available for the problem at hand.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X21001515
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X21001515
M3 - Article
C2 - 36098441
AN - SCOPUS:85137730488
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 45
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
M1 - e180
ER -