Cultural attraction theory (CAT) is a research agenda the purpose of which is to develop
causal explanations of cultural phenomena. CAT is also an evolutionary approach to culture …

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

Here, I discuss two broad versions of human cultural evolution which currently exist in the
literature and which emphasize different underlying dynamics. One, which originates in …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

This paper examines why fundamental freedoms are so unevenly distributed across the
earth. Climato-economic theorizing proposes that humans adapt needs, stresses, and …

The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse
approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this …

The science of cultural evolution is unified in its application of evolutionary logic to socially
transmitted behavior, but diverse in methodologies and assumptions. Qualitative reviews …

Abstract Concepts from cultural attractor theory are now used in domains far from their
original home in anthropology and cultural evolution. Yet these concepts have not been …

A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization,
Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a …

Transmitted culture can be viewed as an inheritance system somewhat independent of
genes that is subject to processes of descent with modification in its own right. Although …