Iritani Ryosuke, West Stuart A
RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.
Evol Hum Behav. 2025 Jul;46(4):106693. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106693.
Baumard and André (2025) have suggested that cultural dynamics can be studied as a form of ecology. This provides a simpler unified approach to explaining cultural evolution, within the context of human behavioiur being shaped by natural selection. We briefly expand on two points: (1) why inclusive fitness represents our most general answer to what organisms are selected to maximise; (2) the potential for using existing eco-evolutionary theory methods to model cultural evolution.
鲍马尔和安德烈(2025年)提出,文化动态可以作为一种生态学形式来研究。这提供了一种更简单的统一方法,在自然选择塑造人类行为的背景下解释文化进化。我们简要阐述两点:(1)为什么广义适合度代表了我们对生物体被选择最大化的最普遍答案;(2)使用现有的生态进化理论方法对文化进化进行建模的可能性。