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Review
. 2020 Jun;68(2):275-285.
doi: 10.1007/s10441-019-09367-7. Epub 2019 Sep 28.

The Cultural Evolution of Human Nature

Mark Stanford  1
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Review

The Cultural Evolution of Human Nature

Mark Stanford. Acta Biotheor. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Recent years have seen the growing promise of cultural evolutionary theory as a new approach to bringing human behaviour fully within the broader evolutionary synthesis. This review of two recent seminal works on this topic argues that cultural evolution now holds the potential to bring together fields as disparate as neuroscience and social anthropology within a unified explanatory and ontological framework.

Keywords: Cognitive anthropology; Cultural evolution; Evolutionary psychology; Human origins.

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