研究复杂的群体文化特征的出现需要一个数学框架。

Studying the emergence of complicated group-level cultural traits requires a mathematical framework.

机构信息

Department of Zoology and Department of Mathematics,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC V6T 1Z4,

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,University of Colorado at Denver,Denver,CO

出版信息

Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Jun;37(3):258-9. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002859.

DOI:10.1017/S0140525X13002859

PMID:24970404

Abstract

Understanding the cultural evolution of complicated group-level traits requires the mathematical formulation of a dynamical system with birth and death events at multiple levels, that is, at the level of individual humans and at the level of groups of humans. Both levels are characterized by cultural traits that have complicated transmission, innovation, and inheritance mechanisms and that can undergo a form of Lamarckian evolution.

摘要

理解复杂群体水平特征的文化进化需要用一个具有多个层次的生死事件的动力系统的数学公式来表达，即个人层次和人类群体层次。这两个层次都具有复杂的传播、创新和继承机制的文化特征，并且可以经历一种拉马克式进化。