How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An ...

The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of socio-cultural systems was done by Talcott Parsons on a scale which included a theory ...

In this article, we propose that cultural evolution theory (CET) can be usefully applied to organizational scholarship to pursue such “origin” questions. CET has adapted ideas and methods from ...

The paper, titled “Multilevel cultural evolution: From new theory to practical applications,” explores how humans have evolved as a highly prosocial species. While individual success alone drives ...

This statement may appear paradoxical, but it will not appear to be contradictory if we understand the Chinese civilizational and cultural evolution. In its 5,000 years of development, the Chinese ...

Strangely, however, some of these also accord with expectations from evolutionary theory, which defines altruism ... Religious and cultural practices around the world offer similar guidance ...

cultural evolution and symbiosis, when two different species live together intimately. Over the years, the theory of ...

Nevertheless, the theory of memes, though flawed, remains one of the leading ways of thinking about cultural evolution. And, of course, the theory is a meme itself.