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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 timeline of stone tool development by humans has been rearranged by new research, shaking up traditional views about the evolution ... cultural and technological revolution before expanding across ...

The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the mainstream version of evolutionary theory, needed extending (it didn’t); in ...