Sociocultural evolution(ism) is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies change over time. Note that "sociocultural evolution ...

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

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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 ...

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

In this interview filmed for Evolution: "The Mind's Big Bang," Susan Blackmore explains her controversial theory of "memetic" evolution and the development of human culture and intelligence.

Fully explaining organizational phenomena requires exploring not only “how” a phenomenon works – i.e., the details of its internal structure and mechanisms – but also “why” the phenomenon is present ...

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 ...