Sacred text as cultural genome: an inheritance mechanism and method for studying cultural evolution
Any process of evolution requires a mechanism of inheritance for the transmission of information across generations and the expression of phenotypes during each generation. Genetic inheritance mechanisms have been studied for over a century but mechanisms of inheritance for human cultural evolution...
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Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 178-190 |
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Cultural Evolution
B inheritance mechanisms B Epigenetics B Evolution B Genetics |
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