没有复制或选择的文化.
Alberto Acerbi1, Mathieu Charbonneau2, Helena Miton3
1Centre for Culture and Evolution, Division of Psychology, Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH, UK.
Evolutionary human sciences
|August 17, 2023
概括
文化稳定可以从融合转变中产生,在这种转变中,新的文化项目以有针对性的方式演变. 这一过程可以在没有复制或选择的情况下保持文化特征,为文化进化提供了新的见解.
科学领域:
- 文化演变的文化演变
- 理论建模理论建模
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
背景情况:
- 文化现象在时间和空间上表现出人口层面的相似性.
- 了解确保文化稳定的机制是文化科学中的一个基本问题.
研究的目的:
- 研究融合转变在文化进化中的进化和稳定作用.
- 模拟融合转型对文化稳定的影响.
- 探索融合转换,复制和选择之间的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 开发了一系列文化演变的随机模型.
- 分析文化稳定出现的条件.
- 研究非随机转换和高准确度复制的进化特征.
主要成果:
- 只有融合转化才能建立和保持文化稳定性,独立于复制或选择.
- 高精度复制和融合转换可以共同促进文化稳定.
- 非随机转换和高准确度复制产生了在经验数据中可检测的独特的进化特征.
结论:
- 融合转型为文化稳定提供了一个新的机制.
- 这一发现补充了达尔文的文化进化方法,并支持像文化吸引理论这样的框架.
- 这项研究提供了通过有针对性的,非随机的变化来理解文化稳定性的正式支持.
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