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Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Whether competition among large groups played an important role in human social evolution is dependent on how variation, whether cultural or genetic, is maintained between groups. Comparisons between genetic and cultural differentiation between neighboring groups show how natural selection on large groups is more plausible on cultural rather than genetic variation.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903232106

Authors: Adrian V. Bell, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath

Institution: University of California, Davis

Language: English

Topic: Language and cultural evolution

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1964250144

FWCI: 329.5

Cites: 52

Cited by: 296

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