Defining and explaining culture (comments on Richerson and Boyd, not by genes alone)

Biology and Philosophy 23 (2):283-292 (2008)
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Abstract

We argue that there is a continuum of cases without any demarcation between more individual and more cultural information, and that therefore “culture” should be viewed as a property that human mental representations and practices exhibit to a varying degree rather than as a type or a subclass of these representations and practices (or of “information”). We discuss the relative role of preservative and constructive processes in transmission. We suggest a revision of Richerson and Boyd’s classification of the forces of cultural evloution.

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Dan Sperber
Institut Jean Nicod