Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Acta Biotheor. 2020 Jun;68(2):275-285. doi: 10.1007/s10441-019-09367-7. Epub 2019 Sep 28.
Recent years have seen the growing promise of cultural evolutionary theory as a new approach to bringing human behaviour fully within the broader evolutionary synthesis. This review of two recent seminal works on this topic argues that cultural evolution now holds the potential to bring together fields as disparate as neuroscience and social anthropology within a unified explanatory and ontological framework.
近年来,文化进化理论作为一种将人类行为全面纳入更广泛的进化综合的新方法,展现出了日益增长的前景。本文对该主题的两部近期重要著作进行了评论,认为文化进化现在有可能将神经科学和社会人类学等截然不同的领域纳入一个统一的解释和本体论框架中。