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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Cultural Evolution"”.
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From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution
<p>Cultural evolution, or change in the socially learned behavior of a population over time, is a fascinating phenomenon that is widespread in humans and present in some non-human animals. In this dissertation, I present an array of cultural evolutionary studies that bridge pattern and process in a …
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Moscow by night: musical subcultures, identity formation, and cultural evolution in Russia, 1977—2008
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Cultural evolution in Rufous-and-white Wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus): Insights from acoustic and genetic analyses
Acoustic signals play an important role in the evolutionary process. Studying variation in acoustic signals and the evolutionary forces that act on acoustic evolution will help to clarify the role that acoustic divergence plays during speciation. The acoustic signals of birds have been well …
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Cultural evolution in the Age of Athens: drift and selection in Greek figure-painted pottery
… pottery can be explained by this model using evolutionary approaches to archaeology and culture change (Neiman 1995, Bentley et. al. 2004, Bentley et. al. 2007). We develop and expand these approaches through computer simulation. Using data from the Beazley archive, we created a new database …
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(Re)-programming typologies of public infrastructure to serve as a tool for cultural evolution: a re-imagination of the Cape Town Station
… Station as an opportunity to support the social evolution that is on our doorstep. For this I chose to explore the balances in the concepts of culture, society and identity; and consequently the ideas of typology and programming within the infrastructure of a major railway station/public …
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Does culture evolve?: testing evolutionary theories of culture through a case study of El Khiam points from three sites in the Pre Pottery Neolithic A of the Southern Levant
… the question of whether human culture evolves. Evolutionary approaches to understanding culture are introduced, synthesised and challenges considered to provide context and focus to the thesis. Cultural evolution theories have been used to explain much of human complexity, but they remain …
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Assessing the Phylogenetic and Cultural Content of Learned Song
… has the potential to change over time by cultural evolution. The similarities between human languages have been studied for centuries, but historically the relationships between the songs of birds of different species have been seen as too divergent to be useful. Using a computational …
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Snapshot photography : a phatic, socially constructed mnemonic technology
… lithic technologies. The discourse explores the cultural evolution of technology through Jaques Derrida’s theory of originary technicity and Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the cultural evolution of technology by epiphylogenesis and the notion of the externalisation of memory as prosthesis. I …
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Human Origins: Hidden Nonlinear Dynamics in Brain-Culture Coevolution
… within the animal kingdom, a characteristic that evolutionary anthropologists have called behavioural modernity. Our species readily masters language, using it to exchange and collectively manage cultural traditions of greater behavioural complexity than any lone individual can produce within a …
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Bluegrass, Bildung, and Blueprints: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman
… Recognizing the Bildungsroman as a vehicle for cultural and social critique in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century writing, this project offers an in-depth literary analysis of John Fox, Jr.'s novel, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, in which I contend the story itself is, in fact, an …
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Sounding the Floor: Advancing Inclusive Firefighter Culture
… belonging, advocacy efforts, and perceptions of cultural evolution. The research provided evidence of psychological trauma and challenges faced by members of underrepresented demographics, firefighting culture reinforcing a strong drive to be accepted, and members sacrificing uniqueness and …
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Firms and the Evolution of Culture and Cooperation
The first chapter, titled “The Evolution of Productive Organizations”, attempts to break new ground in our explanations of the nature of guilds, partnerships and other pre-modern firm-like organizations. I use the theory of Cultural Evolution to develop a foundation for the evolutionary origins of …
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Null Models For Cultural And Social Evolution
Analogies between biological and cultural evolution date back to Darwin, yet the analogies have remained loose. Neutral evolution, known to be important in biology, has been proposed as a null model for cultural change, but has not developed into tests for selection on cultural features. Using …
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Who, When, How (Not) to Imitate? The Role of Imitation in Collective Intelligence, and Its Implications on the Design of Socio-Technical Systems
… generations, and enabling rapid cumulative cultural evolution. This thesis demonstrates how multi-agent learning (MAL) can facilitate counterfactual experiments that shed light on the performance of different social learning. Simulations present that the details of who, when, and how to …
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ΗΘΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ. ΗΘΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΩΤΕΡΑΙΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΓΕΝΕΤΙΚΕΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
… CAUSED BY THESE DISEASES OF BIOLOGICALAND CULTURAL EVOLUTION. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)
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Conflicts of consciousness : the state, Inkatha and ethnic violence in Natal
… of old communities creates a chasm in cultural evolution and production, raising questions about morality, duty, respect, the acquisition of adulthood and the status of men and women under new conditions of living. It is this debated ethnicity, that lies as the heart of my explanation …
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STORY CIRCLES FOR ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINISTS IN THE ONGOING COVID-19 ERA
… supremacist conceptualizations of taxonomizing cultural, ethnic, and political identities; and 3) participants also used counterstorytelling to critique externally imposed “majoritarian narratives” (Solórzano & Yosso, 2007) for how Asian American womanhood or feminist identities should be lived …
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Public Ecology: Linking People, Science, and the Environment
… issues (e.g., biodiversity loss, global warming, cultural evolution, etc.). In response to these concerns, a variety of applied science programs have emerged to help people make better decisions about the environment. Each of these programs (e.g., conservation biology, restoration ecology, …
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Dating Violence Attitudes, Experiences and Perceptions of Women in College: An Indian Context
… protect its youth from risks of urbanization and cultural shifts. The young adults of India today are joining the global economy. However, there is no system put in place to educate and nurture their social and cultural evolution. Findings from this study suggest that as the youth open themselves …
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