Search Results - subject:"cultural evolution"

On the probabilistic transmission of continuous cultural traits

Cheung, Man-Wah; Wu, Jiabin - In: Journal of economic theory 174 (2018), pp. 300-323

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Natural and economic selection: Lessons from the evo-devo and multilevel selection debate

Schwesinger, Georg - 2013

This paper sheds new light on the concept of selection in evolutionary economics. The interpretation of natural evolution has experienced significant changes in the last decades, while these developments have been often ignored by economists. This is especially true for the concept of selection,...

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ПРИНЦИПЫ И ПРОБЛЕМЫ ЭВОЛЮЦИОННОГО ПОДХОДА ФРИДРИХА АВГУСТА ФОН ХАЙЕКА

ШИРЯЕВ И.М. - In: TERRA ECONOMICUS 11 (2013) 3, pp. 9-13

Данная статья посвящена теории культурной эволюции, разработанной Фридрихом Августом фон Хайеком. В статье перечислены сходства и различия между биологической...

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Old and Young Individuals' Role in Cultural Change

Acerbi, Alberto; Ghirlanda, Stefano; Enquist, Magnus - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 15 (2012) 4, pp. 1-1

We explore the impact of age on cultural change through simulations of cultural evolution. Our simulations show that … culture. For the same reason, considering age-biased cultural transmission in an overlapping generations model, cultural … evolution is slower when individuals interact preferentially with models of similar age than when they mainly interact with …

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The Race for Evolutionary Success

Tonn, Bruce; Stiefel, Dorian - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1787-1805

The Earth appears to be at the beginning of sixth massive species extinction. This paper balances a review of the forces threatening species survival with a comprehensive scan of factors that could act as counterweights. These factors could lead to four types of evolution—cultural, regulatory,...

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Tracing the Development of Touchscreen Education: How Young Children's (0-10 Years) Appropriation of New (Touchscreen) Technologies is Leading Us to Revisit Our Teaching Strategies...

Ferri, Paolo; Moriggi, Stefano - In: International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 22-35

After a brief introduction pointing up the technological origins of humankind, in the main body of this paper the authors bring three different levels of analysis to bear on 0-10-year-old children's appropriation of touchscreen technology (in the home, during informal exchanges with peers, and...

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