Cultural evolution is the change over time of non-biological aspects of human society. The process is loosely analogous to biological evolution, although does not necessarily involve Darwinian ...

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 evolution by natural selection has itself evolved, absorbing new findings about ...

This open-ended imagination allows humans to constantly push boundaries, while animal cultures often hit evolutionary ceilings. Human culture enriches itself perpetually, creating a virtuous ...

The project Early Christianity in Cultural Evolution (ECCE) is a multidisciplinary undertaking which integrates knowledge of humanities and natural sciences in order to explain the spread of early ...

Many say that our culture is obsessed with sex ... Yet from the viewpoint of evolutionary theory, sex isn't the most efficient way of reproducing. In fact, scientists have been asking for decades ...

But, it is unclear when cumulative culture first developed during hominin evolution. A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Arizona State University ...