In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study ofculture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role ofinnovation in part
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural gr
Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of lan
