PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Evolution, High Fidelity, Literature Review
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What kind of claim is alex making. Human has high fidelity for social learning than others species and individual learning. Imitation is what set human apart from other animals. Using the same mechanism as genetic evolution does. Can change in a matter of day. We are evolved to solve social problem. How we can characterize cultural evolution on a group level. Cultural evolution uses principles of biological evolution to explain cultural variability/similarities around the world. Depends on where in the world the meme is spread to. Some meme is hard to pinpoint origin. Cultural tool spread and we can chase the origin. Use of mathematical model to model and describe human behaviour. How likely someone will engage in individual learning or social learning. Under what condition what trait is advantageous. Important in engaging in cultural evolutionary work. Bring and give new info to the field.
