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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cultural selection"”.
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Conceptual Challenges in Cultural Selection
… is to address key conceptual challenges within cultural selection, in order to provide a rigorous evaluation of its promise and scope. Cultural selection, a process analogous to natural selection which operates on cultural traits, has been proposed as an explanation for a wide range of …
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Visual art discourses as rhetoric: exploring the colonial creation of the Canadian Northwest Passage
… was later enforced by the removal of visual and cultural references to aboriginal cultures and peoples, rendering their historic and contemporary presence invisible to colonizers. In Canada, however, a second modern art tradition interceded. Even as the Group of Seven’s interpretation of the …
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Cultural evolution in Rufous-and-white Wrens (Thryophilus rufalbus): Insights from acoustic and genetic analyses
… In this dissertation I compare patterns of cultural evolution in male and female Rufous-and-white Wrens, and I examine the evolutionary forces that act on male and female acoustic signals. To achieve this goal, I combine acoustic and genetic analysis to quantify genetic differentiation, …
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Characterization and classification of Native American maize landraces from the Southwestern United States
… about their relationships to environmental and cultural factors, drove the need to characterize and classify known existing landraces. Maize landraces and human cultures have co-evolved, with maize being shaped by diverse environmental and cultural selection pressures. Understanding maize …