• work that was developed into a full theory of "socio-cultural evolution" in 1965 (a work that includes references to other works in the then current revival of interest in the field). (wikipedia.org)
  • To achieve virtual fidelity and accurate reproductions of historic environments, Professor Bandyopadhyay and Professor Abdelmonem sought to develop novel platforms for conservation of heritage sites in the MENA region, incorporating a series of socio-cultural studies and historic narratives, in Oman, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. (ntu.ac.uk)
  • To contribute to fill this gap, we analyze fishing activities among two Baka communities from southeastern Cameroon, particularly focusing on fishing productivity as well as the ethnoecological specificities and the socio-cultural role of fishing. (openedition.org)
  • In contrast with hunting, whose value is mostly associated to the cultural valorization of the wild meat, the cultural importance of fishing is largely based on the activity in itself, through its socio-cultural dimension. (openedition.org)
  • This paper aims to highlight the socio-cultural value of fishing activities in the livelihood of contemporary forest hunter-gatherers. (openedition.org)
  • This technique aims to describe and represent the interconnectedness of five domains of human activity, namely environmental, socio-cultural, technological, economics, and public policy, and their interaction with regard to achieving the goals of sustainability [1] . (lu.se)
  • Cultural evolution, historically also known as sociocultural evolution, was originally developed in the 19th century by anthropologists stemming from Charles Darwin's research on evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 19th century cultural evolution was thought to follow a unilineal pattern whereby all cultures progressively develop over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 19th century in France was a time of significant social transformation, with changes in the class structure, cultural norms, and political landscape. (19thcentury.us)
  • Cultural norms in 19th century France were shaped by the dominant ideology of liberalism , which emphasized individual rights, freedom, and equality before the law. (19thcentury.us)
  • Overall, the social dynamics of 19th century French society were characterized by a widening gap between the classes, evolving cultural norms, and a turbulent political landscape. (19thcentury.us)
  • Differences in dress, diet, and social norms are readily apparent. (probe.org)
  • 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)
  • There have been a number of different approaches to the study of cultural evolution, including dual inheritance theory, sociocultural evolution, memetics, cultural evolutionism, and other variants on cultural selection theory. (wikipedia.org)
  • It uses formal models and computer simulations to explore the complexity of cultural change: from the interaction between individuals to large-scale dynamics. (bsc.es)
  • However, very few studies - and less so among Central African forest societies - have focused on fishing practices and their social, cultural and symbolic complexity. (openedition.org)
  • co-authored with Ben Shulman, Vlad Vasilescu, and Joe Henrich) on the relationship between sociality and cultural complexity. (muthukrishna.com)
  • anthropologists now commonly accept that social changes arise in consequence of a combination of social, evolutionary, and biological influences. (wikipedia.org)
  • The early years of the 20th century and particularly World War I saw biological concepts and metaphors shunned by most social sciences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea Race, in the common understanding, draws upon differences not only of skin color and physical attributes but also of language, nationality, and religion. (123helpme.com)
  • To each he attributed inherited biological as well as learned cultural characteristics. (123helpme.com)
  • In addition to his scientific prowess, Ashley Montagu was a dedicated and articulate social critic, concerned with bringing the findings of the social and biological sciences to bear upon the betterment of man's lot, while subjecting some of those very findings to critical social scrutiny. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Indeed, the key error of sociobiological accounts of human behavior and culture that I identify is that they miss that our biological adaptations have made possible another level of Darwinian selection entirely, which means groups will differ from each other as the result of cultural, not genetic, evolution. (social-epistemology.com)
  • ARCH3042: Ecology of human evolution: biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations. (talis.com)
  • Professor Bulbilia uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods and models drawn mainly from the biological and social sciences. (ibcsr.org)
  • There has progressively been increased recognition of the need to address behavioural, lifestyle (harmful cultural practices) and other underlying socioeconomic, physical and biological factors, referred to here as the broad determinants of health, so as to improve health. (who.int)
  • A model based fully on biological evolution misses important insights for explaining the arbitrariness and historical contingency in ownership beliefs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Today, cultural evolution has become the basis for a growing field of scientific research in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, psychology, and organizational studies. (wikipedia.org)
  • This collection pulls together content from the Nature Human Behaviour Focus issue on Cooperation - including insights from anthropology, evolutionary biology, human behavioural ecology, economics, neuroscience, psychology, ethology, and environmental studies - and from the archive of Nature Ecology & Evolution, to understand the state of knowledge on cooperation and highlight future research directions. (nature.com)
  • This website is a development from my site Rochelle's Philosophy Website which presents my views on historical change.The issues raised are also common to sociology as they concern ideas of long term social change and anthropology as they effect ideas of cultural evolution. (rochelleforrester.ac.nz)
  • Jamie Holland Jones invited me to present my research on human evolution, cultural evolution, and social networks at the Stanford Anthropology Colloquium Series . (muthukrishna.com)
  • Merrill Singer's Anthropology of Infectious Disease argues that pathogens are intertwined with human social worlds. (cdc.gov)
  • The Dictionary of Anthropology is designed to become the standard reference guide to the discipline of social and cultural anthropology. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Understanding the traits that have undergone positive selection during human evolution can provide insight into the events that have shaped our species, as well as into the diseases that continue to plague us today. (phys.org)
  • 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)
  • While we may not like these traits, a true follower of cultural relativism could not say these are wrong since they are merely the product of cultural adaptation. (probe.org)
  • Social learning is more effective, and more culture accumulates in these specialist cultures where everyone becomes very proficient at the same handful of traits because there are no wasted learning opportunities," Akçay says. (upenn.edu)
  • The cultural intelligence hypothesis holds that living in groups creates opportunities for apes to mimic each other. (ru.nl)
  • These are only some of the questions that have been explored by the social sciences and humanities since their beginnings. (bsc.es)
  • Willeke Wendrich holds the Joan Silsbee Chair in African Cultural Archaeology and is a professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Digital Humanities in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. (equinoxpub.com)
  • Nova publishes a wide array of books and journals from authors around the globe, focusing on Medicine and Health, Science and Technology and the Social Sciences and Humanities. (novapublishers.com)
  • Whilst the use of quantitative methodologies is more established in the social sciences, we recognise their growing application in many areas of the humanities. (nature.com)
  • Review articles are also welcomed that synthesise recent and emerging developments pertaining to the application of methodological approaches in the humanities or social sciences. (nature.com)
  • She published widely on the social context of craft production and especially on basketry and basket makers. (equinoxpub.com)
  • He explored the interplay between the evolution of the built environment and its historical social context, using Manah, a strategically important oasis settlement in central Oman, as a case study. (ntu.ac.uk)
  • In contrast to a strictly biomedical framework, the core argument of the book is that infectious diseases cannot be understood through biology alone but rather must be considered within the context of the cultural and social worlds they inhabit. (cdc.gov)
  • This fact gives us the opportunity to, through the comparison of these two texts, gather an idea of how the cultural, aesthetic, and ideological context has developed in the interim. (lu.se)
  • He explores various techniques, from the rhythmic movements of a Zulu mythmaker's hands to the way a storyteller will play on the familiar context of other myths within her cultural context. (lu.se)
  • The paper highlights three distinct categories - human universals (evolved similarities), local adaptations (evolved differences), and local socialization (differences not due to evolution). (businessperspectives.org)
  • The paper contributes to advertising theory by providing a meta-framework for the study of cross-cultural similarities and differences in the processing of advertising cues. (businessperspectives.org)
  • While anthropologists continue to study how and why humans vary biologically, it is apparent that human populations differ from one another much less than do populations in other species because we use our cultural, rather than our physical differences to aid us in adapting to various environments. (123helpme.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)
  • 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)
  • In addition to not being sufficient as indicators of cultural influences, between-group differences are not necessary either. (frontiersin.org)
  • This literature view will initiate by discussing four important concepts associated with the acculturation theory, then this review will present pan-cultural research evidence in order to demonstrate the four acculturation concepts, with that, explanations identifying how the acculturation theory helps us comprehend pan- cultural ethnic differences and similarities will be highlighted, and next the potential weaknesses of the acculturation theory will be presented. (gerardcambon.net)
  • co-authored with Mark Schaller ) describes a mechanism through which realistic human social network structures can emerge and the implications of these mechanisms for cross-cultural differences in cultural transmission and innovation. (muthukrishna.com)
  • The approaches differ not just in the history of their development and discipline of origin but in how they conceptualize the process of cultural evolution and the assumptions, theories, and methods that they apply to its study. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cultural Evolution is one of the most recent and interesting approaches to the crucial task of understanding how society works. (bsc.es)
  • Because of its accessible style and clear elucidation of theory, this book is also appropriate for practitioners in medicine or public health and infectious disease who would like to familiarize themselves with social science approaches in the field. (cdc.gov)
  • In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural species. (google.com)
  • Human beings are a social species that relies on cooperation to survive and thrive. (nature.com)
  • One, we are a social species. (satirist.org)
  • Being a social species means that we can save effort by learning from each other, rather than figuring things out for ourselves. (satirist.org)
  • Evolutionary theory predicts that natural selection will fashion cognitive biases to guide when, and from whom, individuals acquire social information, but the precise nature of these biases, especially in ecologically valid group contexts, remains unknown. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • This essay examines the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content with the aim of reaching new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which the films were made. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this essay is therefore to explore the relationship between the two feature-length Blade Runner films, placing a certain focus on areas of aesthetic, design, and thematic content, in the hopes that we, through their juxtaposition, might reach new insights into the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which they were made. (lu.se)
  • In this magnificent collection, he not only provides hundreds of fascinating myths, but recaptures their cultural contexts--in which story and storyteller,tradition and performance, all merge. (lu.se)
  • Their skills in social and technical contexts seem to be at level with the most intricate abilities we have so far found in animals. (lu.se)
  • This chapter continues by making a strong case for the inclusion of anthropologic frameworks in our understanding of microbes and their impact because ethnography and other anthropologic tools link every day on-the-ground experiences to broader social structures and global processes. (cdc.gov)
  • Here I broaden the focus of the text to examine cinema's symptomatic and productive relationship to cultural processes, and how our visions of the future possess the power to impact what it will become. (lu.se)
  • We elaborate the role of cultural evolutionary processes for solving coordination problems. (bvsalud.org)
  • He argued for both customs (1874 p. 239) and "inherited habits" as contributing to human evolution, grounding both in the innate capacity for acquiring language. (wikipedia.org)
  • Not by genes alone : how culture transformed human evolution. (businessperspectives.org)
  • We explain how a package of culturally evolved religious beliefs and practices characterized by increasingly potent, moralizing supernatural agents, credible displays of faith, and other psychologically active elements conducive to social solidarity promoted internal harmony, large-scale cooperation, and high fertility, often leading to success in intergroup competition. (dericbownds.net)
  • This synthesis is grounded in the idea that although religious beliefs and practices originally arose as non-adaptive byproducts of innate cognitive functions, particular cultural variants were then selected for their prosocial effects in a long-term cultural evolutionary process. (dericbownds.net)
  • As we will see, cultural relativism allows us to be tolerant toward other cultures, but it provides no basis to judge or evaluate other cultures and their practices. (probe.org)
  • The strength of cultural relativism is that it allows us to withhold moral judgments about the social practices of another culture. (probe.org)
  • We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions, and apply it to resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history: 1) the rise of large-scale cooperation among strangers in the last twelve millennia, and 2) the spread of prosocial religions during the same period. (dericbownds.net)
  • Distrust is one of the main barriers to cooperation, and social life in Sateni (Romania) is rife with fear of predation or harm and suspicion towards fellow villagers. (santafe.edu)
  • Despite the centrality of cooperation to so many liveways, there is still a great deal to be understood about its evolution and how and when it succeeds and fails. (nature.com)
  • demonstrate how establishing sparse interconnections between previously segregated, uncooperative societies can support the evolution of cooperation globally. (nature.com)
  • At the Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage (CAUGH), the research focus goes beyond the physical remains of historic sites and seeks to understand human experience, rituals and social history that add meaningful narratives to physical fabric, structures and artefacts. (ntu.ac.uk)
  • His scholarship exposes the fundamental role that digital and geospatial technologies play in the investigation and protection of sites of cultural significance, archaeological and museum collections, data and information that describe and document the cultural diversity of our planet. (equinoxpub.com)
  • Proponents of cultural relativism believe this cultural diversity proves that culture alone is responsible for our morality. (probe.org)
  • Thus, a copying dominants strategy may, as often proposed for conformist transmission, and perhaps in concert with it, restrict the accumulation of traditions within chimpanzee communities whilst maintaining cultural diversity. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • 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 Oral Health Organization has recognized that oral diseases cause pain, psychological suffering, social constraints and privations, leading to damage in an individual and collective level 4 . (bvsalud.org)
  • From the interrogation of empirical questions about cultural, social, and behavioural phenomena, to the formation of evidence-based policy, the application of quantitative methods in making sense of real-world data is of paramount importance across all fields of academic enquiry. (nature.com)
  • co-authored with Maciek Chudek and Joe Henrich ), describes the evolution of large brains and parsimoniously explains several empirical relationships between brain size, group size, social learning, mating structures, culture, and the juvenile period. (muthukrishna.com)
  • Stressors include language and cultural barriers, demands of their transborder relationships (also known as transnationalism, whereby individuals maintain active relationships with friends and family in their home countries, including remittances), exposures to occupational hazards, and demands of acculturation. (cdc.gov)
  • Her particular focus is the United States, understood within the broader frameworks of the Americas and global cultural flows. (ibcsr.org)
  • This Programme supports the evolution of a health system that is based on equity, effectiveness and sustainability, and that addresses the broader social, economic, environmental and cultural determinants of health. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • This means that the similarities we see in complex cognition and behaviour, is the result of independent evolution. (lu.se)
  • Evolution goes beyond the genetic code and the transformation of physical form, from land-mammal to whale or dinosaur to bird. (phys.org)
  • An agile mindset can empower workforces to rapidly evolve, as Samuel's story of cultural transformation exemplifies. (unily.com)
  • Among a troop of savanna baboons in Kenya, a terrible outbreak of tuberculosis 20 years ago selectively killed off the biggest, nastiest and most despotic males, setting the stage for a social and behavioral transformation unlike any seen in this notoriously truculent primate. (kateva.org)
  • Given the typically low rank of immigrants in chimpanzees, a 'copying dominants' bias may contribute to the observed maintenance of distinct cultural repertoires in neighboring communities despite sharing similar ecology and knowledgeable migrants. (st-andrews.ac.uk)
  • Beyond short-term studies based on current social networks we need a larger scope if we want to understand human dynamics. (bsc.es)
  • To understand long-term cultural dynamics using archaeological and historical data. (bsc.es)
  • In this line of thought, this post introduces Agent-Based modeling (ABM) and System Dynamics (SD), both of them increasingly being used in environmental, social and economic sciences. (lu.se)
  • Previous works on cultural evolution have proposed Iterated Learning procedures, in which the behavioral output of one individual becomes the target behavior for the next individual in the chain. (edpsciences.org)
  • Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. (wikipedia.org)
  • I propose a conceptual extension of the theory of cultural evolution, particularly related to the evolutionary competition between cultural groups. (cambridge.org)
  • The Neurology and Evolution of Humor, Laughter, and Smiling: The False Alarm Theory. (businessperspectives.org)
  • Within the hour a former ABC journalist, a current Guardian journalist and a professor at ACU took to Twitter to proclaim that in using the term "Cultural Marxism" Senator Antic was spreading an anti-Jewish "right-wing conspiracy theory"-a bizarre accusation considering that Antic had immediately followed these comments by praising Judeo-Christian values. (quadrant.org.au)
  • Another theory sees social intelligence becoming more important as groups become larger: Understanding the intentions of others and being able to spot deceivers are beneficial to individuals. (ru.nl)
  • An agent-based model is presented, incorporating cooperative and collective action theory that reveals tipping points in social attitudes toward conservation in three at-risk regions. (nature.com)
  • Each subchapter explores the films from a different perspective leading up to chapter IV, in which I consider the films in relation to the cultural theory of capitalist realism. (lu.se)
  • There is a recent and growing cultural shift in Sweden to avoid flying, by leaders from diverse backgrounds including journalists, politicians, celebrities, and parents, as well as a national flight tax begun in 2018. (lu.se)
  • However, the boundary between trust and distrust shows signs of evolution over time, suggesting the relevance of life-history analysis and micro-macro causal relationships for social and cultural phenomena. (santafe.edu)
  • These laws underpin life's origin, evolution and the development of human culture and technology, yet they do not predict the emergence of these phenomena. (bvsalud.org)
  • Models are not one-to-one reflections of reality, however, if constructed with rigour they have the potential to be 'illuminating' abstractions [3] , and can be used to explain social, ecological and economic systems. (lu.se)
  • Beck U. From industrial society to risk society: questions of survival, social structure, and ecological enlightenment. (cdc.gov)
  • India, while not disparaging economic advancement or social utility, has always stressed the importance of human personality against all challenges to it. (exoticindia.com)
  • In contrast, the lower class struggled to make ends meet and had limited access to education and opportunities for social advancement. (19thcentury.us)
  • Abdelmonem subsequently developed a novel heritage management framework as a co-production and community-led preservation tool, which utilises novel virtual heritage technologies to explore the theoretical and philosophical disposition of cultural heritage as a democratised record of historic environments. (ntu.ac.uk)
  • Moving on to the role of social factors in the differential burden of disease in various populations, the last sections of the book explore social experiences of suffering, highlighting the interaction of infectious with noninfectious disease, the relationship between inequality and emerging infectious disease, and the effects of politics and global structural forces on future pathogenic challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • Specifically, this research examines the social, political, and cultural factors involved in the evolution and practice of art music in Nigeria. (mellenpress.com)
  • It further assists advertising practice by delivering a framework aiding in cross-cultural advertising copy decisions. (businessperspectives.org)
  • Is there a role for social media in clinical practice? (medscape.com)
  • Medscape spoke with Roger McIntyre, MD, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Toronto, and Joshua Rosenblat, MD, MSc, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, to discuss the evolving patient-clinician relationship and the role of social media in these interactions. (medscape.com)
  • To create new data science methods and tools designed to analyse evolution. (bsc.es)
  • David talks with Alex Mesoudi about this field of cultural evolution and how it is bringing a full view of humanity into inquiry and building bridges across disparate fields of science. (google.com)
  • Following this foundation in social science, the book's second chapter provides a more biologically based introduction to microbes, emphasizing human-pathogen interaction and evolution. (cdc.gov)
  • Energy Research & Social Science , 75, 102033: 1-9. (lu.se)
  • Psychiatry has been focused more on transactional assessments in consultation, which I believe should continue, but that can be enriched by taking a historical cultural psychodynamic approach which gives a great deal of consideration to personal history, family history, economics, cultural and racial backgrounds, and exposures to trauma. (medscape.com)
  • {2} Gertz believed that "Humans are shaped exclusively by their culture and therefore there exists no unifying cross-cultural human characteristics. (probe.org)
  • In truth, healthcare access entails a complicated calculus that combines characteristics of individuals, their households, and their social and physical environments with characteristics of healthcare delivery systems, organizations, and healthcare providers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This research will seize this important moment to document, analyze and evaluate the evolution of the conversations about aviation, climate, and the good life happening in traditional and social media, and their implications for policy and daily life. (lu.se)
  • Others pursued more specific analogies notably the anthropologist F. T. (Ted) Cloak who argued in 1975 for the existence of learnt cultural instructions (cultural corpuscles or i-culture) resulting in material artefacts (m-culture) such as wheels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although a number of models have been developed to investigate the emergence of culture and evolutionary phases in social systems, one important aspect has not yet been sufficiently emphasized. (arxiv.org)
  • The Cultural Heritage of India , sponsored by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, is at once a symbol of the renaissance of Hindu thought and ideals and a treasure-house of ancient lore. (exoticindia.com)
  • Cultural patterns have, of course, been modified from time to time, but different environments, diversified racial contributions, and innumerable local and historical traditions have not basically affected the continuity of Indian culture during six thousand years or more. (exoticindia.com)
  • {1} Cultural relativism is the view that all ethical truth is relative to a specific culture. (probe.org)
  • Whatever a cultural group approves is considered right within that culture. (probe.org)
  • {4} In other words, what we perceive as conscience is merely the product of culture upon our minds through childhood training and cultural influence. (probe.org)
  • In fact, proponents of cultural relativism would say that to pass judgment on another culture would be ethnocentric. (probe.org)
  • Akçay and evolutionary biologist Marco Smolla used a model to investigate the coevolution of social networks and cumulative culture. (upenn.edu)
  • The researchers also explored how environmental stability might impact social learning and culture. (upenn.edu)
  • When the culture of the group promotes social learning, it becomes possible for knowledge and skills that are discovered by one generation, to be transmitted and preserved to a subsequent one. (ru.nl)
  • 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)
  • The aim of this initiative is to develop a unified framework capable of understanding cultural change beyond the knowledge of any single discipline. (bsc.es)
  • His areas of research include risk management, analytics, and modeling and simulation, particularly of social systems. (ibcsr.org)
  • Lind wasn't some fringe crackpot, so when he began explaining his new analytical concept of "Cultural Marxism" people paid attention. (quadrant.org.au)
  • Cultural evolution is the change of this information over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, data on cultural change is difficult to collect and analyse. (bsc.es)
  • To develop computer models of cultural change. (bsc.es)
  • Social change has also impacted the way that companies operate. (greaterspokane.org)
  • The order of discovery determines the course of human social and cultural history as new discoveries lead to social change and cultural evolution. (rochelleforrester.ac.nz)
  • The case studies make some use of counter-factuals to show how, if the laws of the natural sciences or the properties of matter in the natural world were different, the course of history, social change and the evolution of cultures would have been different. (rochelleforrester.ac.nz)
  • With that change in demographics came a cultural swing toward pacifism, a relaxing of the usually parlous baboon hierarchy, and a willingness to use affection and mutual grooming rather than threats, swipes and bites to foster a patriotic spirit. (kateva.org)
  • Thinking critically about photovoice: Achieving empowerment and social change. (lu.se)
  • Understanding the reasons behind the successful rise of staying on the ground up the social and political agenda in Sweden will both illuminate the often overlooked role of cultural change in meeting climate goals, and make predictions about the potential for replicating these impacts elsewhere. (lu.se)
  • Urban Social Change Review 1981;14:12-5. (cdc.gov)
  • A sketch of the evidence for selection on inter-group cultural variation in humans. (cambridge.org)
  • Such an animal's brains would have needed features that are now shared by its descendants: both chimps and humans adapt well to changing environments, are able to use tools and are social. (ru.nl)
  • The only tests on which humans excel involve the ability to learn from someone else: social learning. (ru.nl)
  • The model also describes the selection pressures that may have led humans into the realm of cumulative cultural evolution, further driving up the human brain size. (muthukrishna.com)
  • Research in cultural evolution, using transmission chain experiments, demonstrates that humans have biases to attend to, remember, and transmit some types of content over others. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, in five preregistered experiments using material from previous studies with human participants, we use the same, transmission chain-like methodology, and find that the LLM ChatGPT-3 shows biases analogous to humans for content that is gender-stereotype-consistent, social, negative, threat-related, and biologically counterintuitive, over other content. (bvsalud.org)
  • In recent years, there has been a convergence of the cluster of related theories towards seeing cultural evolution as a unified discipline in its own right. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cultural evolution, in the Darwinian sense of variation and selective inheritance, could be said to trace back to Darwin himself. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conflicts and cultural evolution: All for one and one for all? (upenn.edu)
  • 2. Health promotion facilitates increased social and community participation in health. (who.int)
  • Many biologist and anthropologists have concluded that race is a social, cultural and political concept based largely on superficial appearances. (123helpme.com)
  • Furthermore, dam fishing represents a privileged space for learning, because it allows not only the transmission of ethnoichthyological knowledge, but also the transmission of other aspects of cultural knowledge that shape the early gender differentiation between boys and girls. (openedition.org)
  • Par ailleurs, elle représente un espace d'apprentissage d'une grande richesse allant au-delà de la transmission de savoirs ethno-ichtyologiques propres à cette activité, mais également d'apprentissage culturel, tout particulièrement en lien avec la construction du genre. (openedition.org)
  • Within this line of research, previous work has suggested that even in non-human primates this paradigm shows that cultural transmission can lead to the progressive emergence of tetris-like structures. (edpsciences.org)
  • Nicola Lercari is a Professor and Chair of Digital Cultural Heritage Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. (equinoxpub.com)
  • It conjoined multi-layered history, narratives and archival records of social, cultural and architectural heritage into publicly accessible virtual platforms that maximise public engagement and provide a roadmap for heritage management capacity building. (ntu.ac.uk)
  • Division of labour is common in social groups from microbes to animals. (nature.com)
  • Attributing race to an individual or a population amounts to applying a social and cultural label that lacks scientific consensus and supporting data. (123helpme.com)
  • Despite registering a lack of sympathy and understanding of Fuller's project, Taylor shares with him the belief that the scientific consensus behind evolution by natural selection is flawed and that it would be better to abandon Darwin's account and begin anew. (social-epistemology.com)
  • In a new study published in Evolutionary Human Sciences , they show that individuals may be better off with fewer social connections, but groups do best when they consist of very dense social networks. (upenn.edu)
  • Through mathematical analysis, simulations and examples from real-world social networks, Fotouhi et al. (nature.com)
  • The standardization/adaptation debate in cross-cultural advertising is a topic on which little consensus prevails and which remains heavily discussed. (businessperspectives.org)
  • Over time, social learning became embedded in their social structure. (ru.nl)
  • First, we identified contextual factors that inform our understanding of tobacco use behaviors, such as setting, time, social relationships, and sensory experience, and compared the forums to identify the ones where content on these factors is most common. (who.int)