cultural phylogenetics
English
Noun
cultural phylogenetics (uncountable)
- (anthropology) The use of techniques from phylogenetics to study the evolutionary history of relationships between humans and between groups of humans, as well as of cultural memes and practices.
- 2011, Alex Mesoudi, Cultural Evolution, University of Chicago Press, page 230,
- For a critique of cultural phylogenetics that is nevertheless supportive of cultural evolution theory, see Borgerhoff Mulder, Nunn, and Towner 2006.
- 2016, Ilya Tëmkin, Chapter 16: Homology and Phylogenetic Inference in Biological and Material Cultural Evolution, Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli (editors), Understanding Cultural Traits, Springer, page 308,
- Focusing on just a single aspect of cultural phylogenetics—homology of man-made objects—exposed many avenues for future theoretical and methodological developments in sociocultural evolution: […] .
- 2019, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Chapter 8: The Uses of Cultural Phylogenetics in Archaeology, Anna Marie Prentiss (editor), Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, Springer, page 157,
- In sum, the biggest challenge to cultural phylogenetics remains that, despite the methodological compatibility with biological phylogenetics, many of the concepts and mechanisms of the latter cannot be applied to cultural evolution.
- 2011, Alex Mesoudi, Cultural Evolution, University of Chicago Press, page 230,
Translations
use of techniques from phylogenetics to study the evolutionary history of human relationships
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Further reading
- Phylogenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Computational phylogenetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Comparative method on Wikipedia.Wikipedia