• This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. (repec.org)
  • Beyond the Melting Pot : Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits ," DELTA Working Papers 1999-10, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure). (repec.org)
  • 'Beyond the Melting Pot': Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits ," The Quarterly Journal of Economics , Oxford University Press, vol. 115(3), pages 955-988. (repec.org)
  • This concept has been generalized to include transmissions of infectious agents, symbionts, and cultural traits between humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet at present, most work on the evolution of culture has focused solely on the transmission of individual-level traits. (cambridge.org)
  • In this target article, I discuss the emergence and evolution of group-level traits and the implications for the theory of cultural evolution, including ramifications for the evolution of human cooperation, technology, and cultural institutions, and for the equivalency of multilevel selection and inclusive fitness approaches. (cambridge.org)
  • Furthermore, these models usually left unattended the important role that the development of human organisms play in the production and transmission of cultural traits. (kli.ac.at)
  • This is the structure of the underlaying network of social relations serving as channels in transmitting cultural traits, which is expected to play a crucial role in the evolutionary processes in social systems. (arxiv.org)
  • In this paper we contribute to the understanding of the role of the network structure by developing a layered ego-centric network structure based model, inspired by the social brain hypothesis, to study transmission of cultural traits and their evolution in social network. (arxiv.org)
  • A number of Peruvians claim at least partial Chinese heritage, despite lacking the surnames, cultural, and language traditions, or even physical features to link them directly to common "Chinese" traits. (thediplomat.com)
  • I am interested in the evolution of primate social behaviours with a main focus on cultural transmission and cognition. (unil.ch)
  • Here, we review instructive examples of living organisms solving diverse problems and propose competent navigation in arbitrary spaces as an invariant for thinking about the scaling of cognition during evolution. (mdpi.com)
  • Evidence of cultural influences on cognition is accumulating, but untangling these cultural influences from one another or from non-cultural influences has remained a challenging task. (frontiersin.org)
  • Despite increasing evidence for the existence of cultural influences on cognition, untangling them from one another or from non-cultural influences has remained a challenging task. (frontiersin.org)
  • Duncan B, Trejo S (2011a) Inter-marriage and the intergenerational transmission of ethnic identity and human capital for Mexican Americans. (springer.com)
  • It is possible that similar mechanisms shaped the evolution of musical systems by early humans perceiving and creating music. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Much of his current empirical research examines the mechanisms underlying socially harmful cultural traditions like female genital cutting and the preferential abortion of females. (unil.ch)
  • Do Transmission Isolation Mechanisms (TRIMS) Influence Cultural Evolution? (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Nakamura and Kaneko say their findings suggest that evolution occurs through the general mechanisms of transmission and selection of cultural style. (technologyreview.com)
  • In How Traditions Live and Die (2016), I described how cultural transmission can come about through the action of psychological mechanisms that are indifferent to fidelity but sensitive to content. (institutnicod.org)
  • This framework proposes that human behavior is shaped by both biological and sociocultural inheritance systems with their own selective mechanisms and forms of transmission. (zmescience.com)
  • Unlike a purely gene-centered approach, Evo-Devo research agenda has focused on two key problems about evolution: how do evolutionary mechanisms generate and modify organismal developmental processes, and how does the structure of developmental processes shape back the patterns and processes of evolution. (kli.ac.at)
  • Our analyses suggest that the increased network size that follows a unique shift in ancestral human residential structure may have led to greater exposure to novel ideas worth copying, and may explain why humans, but not other animals, evolved costly social learning mechanisms (such as high-fidelity over-imitation or conformity-biased transmission) that may have resolved in cumulative cultural evolution ( 21 ) (2) . (anthropologyinpractice.com)
  • Under the category of contagion-as-mechanism, four mechanisms have been proposed to explain how suicide clusters occurred: transmission (contagion-as-transmission), imitation (contagion-as-imitation), contextual influence (contagion-as-context), and affiliation (contagion-as-affiliation). (cdc.gov)
  • They found that oral transmission has profound effects on music evolution, revealing the emergence of musical structures that are consistent with widespread musical features observed across world cultures. (ox.ac.uk)
  • And in recent years, with the emergence of large genetic databases, statisticians have begun to study these patterns and to discover the mathematical laws of evolution that govern them. (technologyreview.com)
  • They argue that music is hardly a semantic system and that our methodological choices may limit the capacity of our paradigm to shed light on the emergence and evolution of a number of putative musical universals. (au.dk)
  • This shortfall can be compensated by taking a diachronic perspective that focuses on the role of culture for the emergence and evolution of our cognitive abilities. (frontiersin.org)
  • The potential for emergence of MERS-CoV mutations that could facilitate sustained community transmission and global dissemination cannot be predicted. (cdc.gov)
  • consistent with global dengue emergence, the local patterns of transmission appear linked to increasing urbanization. (who.int)
  • Despite the infinite patterns in which music could be combined, the researchers found in practice, 'human transmission biases' shape vocal music towards those structures that are easier to learn and transmit. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Virulence and transmission of infectious diseases in humans and insects: evolutionary and demographic patterns" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • While we do not know how Neanderthals would have performed in cognitive tests, cognitive studies comparing humans and chimpanzees have found different patterns of performance across cognitive domains suggesting a role of evolution in specific higher cognitive functions 9 . (nature.com)
  • As a minimum standard, therefore, cross-cultural studies would have to be complemented and bolstered by in-depth ethnographic investigations of where these group-specific patterns originate, how they spread, and how they are maintained (for a rare example of this combination, see Dasen and Mishra, 2010 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • A sketch of the evidence for selection on inter-group cultural variation in humans. (cambridge.org)
  • The concept of 'cultural transmission' is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • His major research interests focus on integrating the biological, cultural, and technological aspects of evolution in humans, non-human primates, and fossil hominins. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Given their shared evolutionary history with humans, nonhuman primates play an exceptional role in the study of animal behavior, ecology, and evolution. (springer.com)
  • After conducting an extensive review of the literature and evidence of long-term human evolution, scientists Tim Waring and Zach Wood concluded that humans are experiencing a "special evolutionary transition" in which the importance of culture, such as learned knowledge, practices and skills, is surpassing the value of genes as the primary driver of human evolution. (umaine.edu)
  • In the very long term, we suggest that humans are evolving from individual genetic organisms to cultural groups which function as superorganisms, similar to ant colonies and beehives," Waring says. (umaine.edu)
  • Although cross-species transmission of prion diseases seems to be limited by an apparent species barrier, the epidemic of BSE in the United Kingdom, which began in 1986, and its transmission to humans indicated that animal prion diseases could pose a significant public health risk. (medscape.com)
  • These include, but are not limited to, (1) preventing hyperacute rejection, (2) preventing acute vascular rejection, (3) facilitating immune accommodation, (4) inducing immune tolerance, (5) preventing the transmission of viruses from xenografts into humans, and (6) addressing the ethical issues surrounding animal sources for xenografts and the appropriate selection of recipients (given that xenotransplantation remains experimental). (medscape.com)
  • These results could have implications for the study of other behaviours resulting from cultural transmission, such as bird song or human language. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The book begins by addressing early prehistory, discussing the convergent evolution of behaviours and the diverse ecological conditions driving the success of different evolutionary paths. (nhbs.com)
  • Implications of horizontal transmission include the critical need for specificity in recognition and acquisition methods and the larger genetic diversity maintained by the symbiont species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their results have implications for the understanding of other cultural phenomena, such as the evolution of language, fashion, and science. (technologyreview.com)
  • Cultural transmission may also be horizontal which is explicitly reified in Dual Inheritance Theory. (wikipedia.org)
  • I propose a conceptual extension of the theory of cultural evolution, particularly related to the evolutionary competition between cultural groups. (cambridge.org)
  • How About a New Theory of Evolution with Less Natural Selection? (scienceblogs.com)
  • The solution to this crisis may be a theoretical framework for human behavior which could reorganize the social sciences in the same way that Darwin's Theory of Evolution reorganized the biological sciences. (zmescience.com)
  • After the mathematics of Darwin's theory of evolution were developed, the next step was a Modern Synthesis with other biologists who had thus far been measuring seemingly disconnected aspects of the biological world. (zmescience.com)
  • This close phylogenetic relationship has led scholars from a diverse set of disciplines (e.g., biological and social sciences, notably psychology and anthropology) and theoretical perspectives (e.g., kinship theory, multilevel selection, social interactions, cultural traditions, competition, cooperation, innovation) to examine a broad range of research topics and methodologies in primatology. (springer.com)
  • I also part company from Richard Dawkins who sees cultural transmission as based on a process of replication, and who assume that imitation and communication provide a robust replication system. (edge.org)
  • We use analysis of variance to disentangle the importance of cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. (repec.org)
  • The significance of this result is that cultural background has a substantial influence on cooperation in otherwise identical environments. (repec.org)
  • He applies cultural evolution to the study of sustainability in social-ecological systems and cooperation in organizational evolution. (umaine.edu)
  • A recent paper in Science by Hill, Walker, and colleagues investigates cooperation in the course of human social and cultural evolution by looking to contemporary hunter-gatherer groups for some of the answers. (anthropologyinpractice.com)
  • He is consulting editor for Evolution and Human Behavior and a member of the editorial board for Evolutionary Human Sciences . (unil.ch)
  • A PDE Model for Protocell Evolution and the Origin of Chromosomes via Multilevel Selection. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Here we show, building on work connecting replicator dynamics with Bayesian methods, that (i) evolution of a hierarchical population under multilevel selection is equivalent to inference in hierarchical Bayesian models, and (ii) evolutionary transitions in individuality, driven by synergistic fitness interactions, is equivalent hierarchical structures via Bayesian model comparisons. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • For most of our history, oral transmission was the main mechanism by which songs were passed down human generations. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We believe that cross-cultural commonalities and diversities in human song emerged from this transmission process, but thus far it has been difficult to test how oral transmission shapes music evolution. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The results provide a new understanding of how cultural transmission can amplify shared individual biases, contributing to the vast diversity of forms we observe in human songs cross-culturally. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The articles in this theme issue seek to understand the evolutionary bases of social learning and the consequences of cultural transmission for the evolution of human behaviour. (edu.au)
  • In this introductory article, we provide a summary of these articles (seven articles on the experimental exploration of cultural transmission and three articles on the role of gene-culture coevolution in shaping human behaviour) and a personal view of some promising lines of development suggested by the work summarized here. (edu.au)
  • This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists, covering various spatial and temporal periods to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission in order to see if we can discover ancient human populations. (nhbs.com)
  • With a focus on lithic technology, the book analyzes ancient materials and cultures to systematically explore the theoretical and physical aspects of culture, convergence, and populations in human evolution and prehistory. (nhbs.com)
  • Readers will also learn about the cultural convergences, and divergences, that occurred during the Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene, such as the budding of human societies in the Americas. (nhbs.com)
  • Among other journals, Charles has published in Evolution and Human Behavior , Nature Human Behaviour , Proceedings of the Royal Society B , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Nature . (unil.ch)
  • Evidence for the cognitive evolution of human beings is mainly based on fossil records of an expanding cranium and an increasing complexity of material culture artefacts. (nature.com)
  • The intergenerational transmission of language human capital among immigrants. (springer.com)
  • Culture is an under-appreciated factor in human evolution, Waring says. (umaine.edu)
  • Culture is also more flexible than genes: gene transfer is rigid and limited to the genetic information of two parents, while cultural transmission is based on flexible human learning and effectively unlimited with the ability to make use of information from peers and experts far beyond parents. (umaine.edu)
  • With groups primarily driving culture and culture now fueling human evolution more than genetics, Waring and Wood found that evolution itself has become more group-oriented. (umaine.edu)
  • Did Human Culture Emerge in a Cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality? (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Zoonotic transmission from exposure to MERS-CoV-infected Arabian camels, known as dromedaries, or their raw milk and limited, nonsustained human-to-human transmission have been reported, including large outbreaks in healthcare facilities ( 3 - 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • However, sustained human-to-human transmission has not been documented, and some case-patients have no identified source of exposure to MERS-CoV. (cdc.gov)
  • Human infections with MERS-CoV are expected to continue to occur on the Arabian Peninsula because of the prevalence of MERS-CoV in dromedaries and the cultural importance of these camels (i.e., for food, milk, and racing purposes) in the region. (cdc.gov)
  • I study cultural transmission from a perspective that combines quantitative cultural history with cognitive science and cultural evolution. (institutnicod.org)
  • That same book sketched a research program calling for cognitive science hypotheses to be tested with data coming from quantitative cultural history. (institutnicod.org)
  • Still, I don't believe that Gladwell or anybody else, myself included, has a satisfactory understanding of the general causes of the dynamics of cultural distribution. (edge.org)
  • His research focuses on eco-evolutionary dynamics, particularly rapid evolution during trophic cascades. (umaine.edu)
  • Our experiment shows how cultural dynamics can be explained in terms of competing evolutionary forces. (blogspot.com)
  • We consider how those stages could apply to a transition event involving integrated groups of cultural traditions and the hominins that create and transmit them. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • We know that cultural contact changes these groups radically, and that for many, their traditions are fading fast or being transformed into theater for tourism groups. (anthropologyinpractice.com)
  • Inverto, we're talking about Darwinian evolution, not generic natural selection (variation within gene pools). (sciforums.com)
  • it's the morphing from lizards to birds that people have a problem with, Darwinian evolution. (sciforums.com)
  • Biological inheritance is shaped by the information contained in genes, whose evolution follows Darwinian laws of natural selection. (zmescience.com)
  • Cultural adaptations may also occur faster in larger groups than in small ones. (umaine.edu)
  • Natural selection was Darwin's chief contribution to the field of evolution in case you didn't know. (sciforums.com)
  • The coevolution of cultural groups and ingroup favoritism. (unil.ch)
  • The evolution of cognitive function and brain development is regarded as the result of a complex interplay of nature and nurture, where development seems to be driven by genes and shaped by environment 1 . (nature.com)
  • We construct a population-genetic model of allopatric divergence that explores the evolution of genes that underlie learning preferences (predispositions to learn some songs over others). (bioone.org)
  • The evolution of complex life involved major transitions such as the aggregation of individual genes into a replicating genome and the encapsulation of self-replicating genetic entities into cellular units. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • Here we model the evolution of proto-chromosomes within protocells as composed of two types of genes: "fast" for gene-level self-replication and "gene" which facilitates protocell-level reproduction. (naturalgenesis.net)
  • However, the molecular genetic factors involved in the evolution are still relatively unexplored. (nature.com)
  • It has been argued that cultural evolution and genetic inheritance are driven by similar rules. (kli.ac.at)
  • However, such accounts of evolution misperceive an important set of disanalogies between the structure of genetic inheritance and the structure of complex processes of cultural transmission. (kli.ac.at)
  • We evolve both genetically and culturally over time, but we are slowly becoming ever more cultural and ever less genetic," Waring says. (umaine.edu)
  • Factors like conformity, social identity and shared norms and institutions - factors that have no genetic equivalent - make cultural evolution very group-oriented, according to researchers. (umaine.edu)
  • Horizontal transmission is the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship. (wikipedia.org)
  • New research has found that constraints in the way our brains work can shape the way people interact when creating music, influencing its evolution. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The research team made up of scientists from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, used singing experiments to perform the largest ever cultural transmission study on the evolution of music. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The research team developed a novel method to simulate the evolution of music with singing experiments, where sung melodies are passed from one singer to the next. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Dr Nori Jacoby, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics who supervised the study said: 'This work demonstrates the benefits of combining large-scale online data collection with innovative psychological paradigms to explore cultural transmission processes in unprecedented detail. (ox.ac.uk)
  • [2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in the context of cultural evolution research, and is primarily used to identify the type of information that is more easily passed on from one person to another. (wikipedia.org)
  • I have carried out this research program in several fields, publishing papers on historical changes in the legibility of written letters, on the dissemination of heraldic designs, or the long-term transmission of children's games, among other topics. (institutnicod.org)
  • Waring is a member of the Cultural Evolution Society, an international research network that studies the evolution of culture in all species. (umaine.edu)
  • Gloria presented a paper on her doctoral research "The Evolution of British Asian Radio in England (1960-2004)" in a panel titled 'Between the Local and the Global. (lu.se)
  • However, we have no direct evidence for the evolution of higher cognitive functions and must rely on cultural artefacts that indirectly suggest behavioural changes 5 . (nature.com)
  • study 'Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves are Good Indicators of Conformist Transmission', our original findings regarding the conditional validity of using population-level sigmoidal acquisition curves as means to evidence individual-level conformity are contested. (mpi.nl)
  • This book brings together contributions that reflect the current diversity of approaches - from the fields of biology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to examine social and cultural transmission from a range of perspectives and at different scales of generalization. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • To find out, Nakamura and Kaneko developed a mathematical model of evolution that can distinguish between these circumstances. (technologyreview.com)
  • Or is it just that musical evolution is the result of the idiosyncratic behavior of composers and so defies more general characterization? (technologyreview.com)
  • But an important question is whether this spread is the result of a general mechanism of transmission or the idiosyncratic behavior of individual composers. (technologyreview.com)
  • The book concludes by integrating these various perspectives and theories, and explores different methods of analysis to link technological developments and cultural convergence. (nhbs.com)
  • This work demonstrates the benefits of combining large-scale online data collection with innovative psychological paradigms to explore cultural transmission processes in unprecedented detail. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Music is a particularly rich cultural expression in which these interrelational processes can be explored. (kli.ac.at)
  • Applying the Price equation, a general description of evolutionary processes, we found that this stasis was mostly attributable to a decrease in the fidelity of transmission. (blogspot.com)
  • While such differences are interesting in any case, in that they attest to cognitive diversity, for us to be willing to accept them as cultural differences, we would want them to involve at least two types of social processes: one for generating the pattern (such as transmission) and one for stabilizing it (such as mutual coercion). (frontiersin.org)
  • citation needed] Because the evolutionary fate of the agent is not tied to reproductive success of the host, horizontal transmission tends to evolve virulence. (wikipedia.org)
  • For horizontal transmission one would need to check the host at each life stage for the presence of the symbiont and determine whether the symbiont is released from the host into the environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • I completed my PhD in Biology (2014) at the Dept. of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria, supervised by Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch and Prof. Simon Kirby (Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh). (mpi.nl)
  • This interactive map indicates the cultural transmission of music across the world and across time, from 1800-2000s, and traces the geographic and temporal evolution of Western dance music. (visualcomplexity.com)
  • In biological, but not cultural, transmissions the carriers (also known as vectors) may include other species. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's faster: gene transfer occurs only once a generation, while cultural practices can be rapidly learned and frequently updated. (umaine.edu)
  • In anterior station, transmission occurs via the bite of an infected organism (the vector), like in malaria, dengue fever, and bubonic plague. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fine details of this process lead to some subtle differences in the way evolution occurs. (technologyreview.com)
  • Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory? (nhbs.com)
  • Evolution is an algorithmic process applied to populations of individuals. (technologyreview.com)
  • Evolution is something that happens to populations , not individuals, and short-term evolutionary advantages are those that produce a benefit for the next generation. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Overall, the book provides a timely synthesis of current accounts of cultural transmission in relation to cognitive process, practical action, and local socio-ecological context, while linking these with explanations of longer-term evolutionary trajectories. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Transmission of HIV is determined by the social, economic, cultural and behavioural context, and is associated with risky behaviour. (who.int)
  • One major force for cultural preservation is the development of graphic records : visual symbols that record information, allowing transmission to carry on even when it skips several generations. (institutnicod.org)
  • Par le biais d'une analyse du système de surveillance actuel du VIH/sida en Égypte, le présent article examine certains des défis que ce pays doit relever face à l'épidémie de VIH/sida. (who.int)
  • The balance between novelty and typicality can be important for other types of culture, and the present model can be useful for analyzing not only music data but also other cultural data," say the researchers. (technologyreview.com)
  • How do the microprocesses of cultural transmission affect the macro structure of culture, its content, its evolution? (edge.org)
  • Cependant, les interrogations sur la précision de ce chiffre sont associées à la crainte d'une augmentation imminente de la prévalence, avec des éléments qui laissent penser qu'en dépit d'une culture conservatrice en Égypte, les comportements à haut risque sont plus fréquents que communément rapporté et le contexte socio-économique qui tend à changer dans le pays accentue cette propension. (who.int)
  • Socially, following 150 years of Peruvian and Chinese cultural blending, Chinese identity has become a greater point of pride for the descendants of many immigrants. (thediplomat.com)
  • WHO regional offices are recruiting specialists to act as focal points for specific areas of work, including voluntary counselling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and other essential components of HIV/AIDS work, coordination of HIV activities within health systems, and surveillance (with an emphasis on behavioural issues). (who.int)
  • It concludes that constraints, such as Egypt's cultural norms and laws, the population's lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the bureaucratic health system, hinder the development and implementation of effective surveillance systems. (who.int)
  • The questionnaire consisted of questions on the virus structure, transmission, prevention and management of HIV and AIDS. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, there are still some knowledge gaps on HIV and AIDS transmission and management that need to be attended to contribution: This study contributed by providing knowledge of undergraduate nursing students' HIV and AIDS training and management of PLWHA. (bvsalud.org)
  • Every competent evolutionary biologist since the 1970s has embraced the mathematics of Kimura and Ohta and knows that evolution is not solely driven by selection, and at the same time, they have not shouted "Revolution! (scienceblogs.com)
  • This approach allowed the researchers to study music evolution in unprecedented detail, quantifying the evolution of 3,424 melodies transmitted across 1,797 participants in the USA and India. (ox.ac.uk)
  • According to researchers, "culturally organized groups appear to solve adaptive problems more readily than individuals, through the compounding value of social learning and cultural transmission in groups. (umaine.edu)
  • This is where I part company not just from your standard semiologists or social scientists who take communication to be a coding-decoding system, a transmission system, biased only by social interests, by power, by intentional or unconscious distortions, but that otherwise could deliver a kind of smooth flow of undistorted information. (edge.org)
  • The present study uses restricted-access data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to investigate whether intergenerational educational transmission varies by county-level demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for Hispanic Americans. (frontiersin.org)
  • We study the evolution of visual symbols, from writing and pictographs to online multi-player games. (institutnicod.org)
  • The study of the reciprocal interrelation between the acquisition of musical skills and the maintenance and evolution of a musical tradition over time has not been explored yet. (kli.ac.at)
  • critiquing the changing relationship between master and apprentice, identifying the role of social media in cultural transmission and ultimately creating new uses for the chaîne opératoire. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Some epigenetic tags survive, and thus "epigenetic inheritance" may play a role in the organism's evolution. (scienceblogs.com)
  • As between-group differences are neither a sufficient nor a necessary indicator of cultural impact, cross-cultural comparisons in isolation are unable to furnish any cogent conclusions. (frontiersin.org)
  • In addition to not being sufficient as indicators of cultural influences, between-group differences are not necessary either. (frontiersin.org)