Search Results - "Cultural evolution"

Compositional-cultural evolutions as variations of Malay architectural and constructional vocabulary- a review by Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Ali, Maisarah, Mohd Nawawi, Norwina, Mustafa, Muhammad Hadi

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Topological socio-cultural evolution a predictor of ethnic conflicts in multi-ethnic societies by Muthusamy, Paramasivam, Wickramasinghe, Chaminda Nalaka, Shanmuganathan, Thilagavathi

“…In this concept paper, authors explain the socio-cultural evolution process of multi-ethnic societies and the impact of ethnic topologies on ethnic conflicts.…”
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Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior by van den Berg, Pieter, Molleman, Lucas, Weissing, Franz J.

Subjects: “…social learning; cooperation; individual differences; cultural evolution; personality…”
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Societal background influences social learning in cooperative decision making by Molleman, Lucas, Gaechter, Simon

Subjects: “…Cooperation; Cultural evolution; Conformity; Collectivism; Human decision-making…”
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Consistent individual differences in human social learning strategies by Molleman, Lucas, Van den Berg, Pieter, Weissing, Franz J.

“…Our study highlights the importance of individual variation for human interactions and sheds new light on the dynamics of cultural evolution.…”
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Urban semiosis: Creative industries and the clash of systems by Hartley, John

“…The first is to make the case that the ‘universe of the mind’ imagined by Yuri Lotman may be considered as a foundational model for cultural evolution (population-wide, dynamic, autopoietic, self-organising adaptation to changing environments). …”
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A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Stories? by Hartley, John

“…The analysis ultimately points to a looming problem for the digital storytelling movement – and possibly for human socio-cultural evolution too. In the crisis of ‘we’ communities that arises with the possibility of a globally networked polity, we need new guides to storytelling action, not the old (Trojan) warhorses of mainstream media. …”
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Urban associations: class, culture and the enlightened spirit, Derby c.1700-c.1900 by Crane, Michael A

“…In analysing the town’s industrial revolution and socio-cultural evolution, the thesis addresses the relative neglect of the historical literature in identifying Derby as a nationally important urban centre. …”
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Writing Oz pop: An insider's account of Australian popular culture making and historiography: An interview with Clinton J Walker by Hogan, T., Beilharz, Peter

“…Going from journalism to his path-finding books and television documentaries, the article traces this work's development both in personal terms and as a symptom of the broader cultural evolution, from the suburbs to pop to art and rock and back again; between London and the provincial cultures of Oz; from one-way American consumerism to local DIY egalitarianism, analogue to digital to global dialogue, youth culture to multi-culturalism, and from the putative low brow to the legimitization process itself of popular culture. © The Author(s) 2012.…”
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Direct evidence of milk consumption from ancient human dental calculus by Warinner, C., Hendy, J., Speller, C., Cappellini, E., Fischer, R., Trachsel, C., Arneborg, J., Lynnerup, N., Craig, O., Swallow, D., Fotakis, A., Christensen, R., Olsen, J., Liebert, A., Montalva, N., Fiddyment, S., Charlton, S., Mackie, M., Canci, A., Bouwman, A., Ruhli, F., Gilbert, Thomas, Collins, M.

“…Milk is a major food of global economic importance, and its consumption is regarded as a classic example ofgene-culture evolution. Humans have exploited animal milk as a food resource for at least 8500 years, but theorigins, spread, and scale of dairying remain poorly understood. …”
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