Dual Inheritance Theory - Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution

Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution

In DIT, the evolution and maintenance of cultures is described by five major mechanisms: natural selection of cultural variants, random variation, cultural drift, guided variation and transmission bias.

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