Giorgio Bertini
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Category Archives: Cultural evolution
How Agriculture was Invented During the Stone Age
It is believed that women were the “inventors” of agriculture, as they began applying observations to their gathering in order to maximize their returns. Plant varieties were chosen for their nutritional value and ease of production, and locations were chosen … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Ancient, Cultural evolution
Tagged Agriculture, ancient, cultural education
The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape
One of humanity’s most important milestones was the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and permanent village life. This Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the Near East, changing the way humans interacted with their environment and each other, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural evolution, Evolution, Farmers
Tagged cultural evolution, evolution, Farmers
Campfire Stories Helped Human Culture Evolve
While today sitting around a campfire, is just seen as good fun, a new study shows that 400,000 to one million years ago, these types of gatherings actually helped human culture evolve. All those years ago, the flames not only … Continue reading
Posted in Campfire, Cultural evolution, Storytelling
Tagged Campfire, cultural evolution, Storytelling
Evolution in Leaps: The punctuated Accumulation and Loss of Cultural Innovations
Archaeological accounts of cultural change reveal a fundamental conflict: Some suggest that change is gradual, accelerating over time, whereas others indicate that it is punctuated, with long periods of stasis interspersed by sudden gains or losses of multiple traits. Existing … Continue reading
Population Size does not explain Past Changes in Cultural Complexity
Archaeologists have long tried to understand why cultural complexity often changed in prehistory. Recently, a series of highly influential formal models have suggested that demography is the key factor. According to these models, the size of a population determines its … Continue reading
Culture and the Self – Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation
People in different cultures have strikingly different construals of the self, of others, and of the interdependence of the two. These construals can influence, and in many cases determine, the very nature of individual experience, including cognition, emotion, and motivation. … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cultural cognition, Cultural differences, Cultural evolution, Culture, Emotions, Self
Tagged cognition, cultural cognition, cultural differences, cultural evolution, culture, emotion, Self
The origins of Cultural Cognition – Understanding and Sharing Intention
We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions: shared intentionality. Participation in such activities requires not only especially powerful … Continue reading
Culture and Psychology
Interest in understanding cultural influences on mental processes and behaviors continues to grow in all areas of psychology, and new research and new knowledge on this topic is created constantly. Much of this new information has brought about increased awareness … Continue reading
The Cultural Evolution of Socially Situated Cognition
Because human cognition is creative and socially situated, knowledge accumulates, diffuses, and gets applied in new contexts, generating cultural analogs of phenomena observed in population genetics such as adaptation and drift. It is therefore commonly thought that elements of culture … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural evolution, Culture, Situated, Social cognition
Tagged cultural evolution, culture, situated, social cognition
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson’s path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, … Continue reading
