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The 47 pages that link to Cultural evolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Social DarwinismCompared with: It explains social change through cultural transmission rather than biological ranking.

• Cultural transmissionNarrower topic: Transmission is one of the processes through which cultural traits evolve.

• Homo sapiensRelated: Cultural inheritance lets human populations adapt faster than genetic evolution alone.

• CultureNarrower topic: It frames cultural change as variation and transmission over time.

• Environmental determinismRelated: Determinist accounts often explain differences in cultural development through environmental pressures.

• Human natureRelated: It shows how shared behavior can spread without being genetically innate.

• Cultural materialismRelated: Both approaches address cultural change, but cultural materialism specifies material conditions as its explanatory basis.

• Vocal learningRelated: Learned vocal traditions can change through transmission without genetic change.

• Edward Burnett TylorRelated: Tylor arranged societies along a proposed sequence from simpler to more complex forms.

• Gene–culture coevolutionNarrower topic: Gene–culture coevolution is a framework for studying culture’s interaction with genetic evolution.

• Behavioral ecologyCompared with: Learned traditions can spread and persist through transmission processes distinct from genetic selection.

• Evolutionary game theoryNarrower topic: Imitation and learning extend evolutionary dynamics beyond genetic inheritance.

• MemeticsNarrower topic: Memetics is one approach to explaining cultural evolution.

• CivilizationRelated: It helps examine how institutions and technologies accumulate without assuming a single path of progress.

• Social evolutionismNarrower topic: Social evolutionism is a historical, stage-based form of cultural evolutionary thought.

• Cognitive revolutionRelated: The debate asks whether cultural complexity accelerated through a sudden transition or cumulative processes.

• Cultural psychologyRelated: It focuses on population-level change, complementing cultural psychology's focus on psychological experience.

• MemeNarrower topic: Memes are one proposed unit for describing cultural evolution.

• Moral progressRelated: It explains how practices spread without assuming that spread makes them morally better.

• Processual archaeologyRelated: Its comparative and evolutionary questions shaped processual accounts of long-term social change.

• ChiefdomRelated: Comparative research tests whether chiefly institutions arise through recurring processes or distinct local histories.

• Social evolutionRelated: Social institutions and practices can spread, persist, or change through cultural transmission.

• ArchetypeCompared with: It offers social transmission as an alternative to inherited archetypal explanations.

• Julian StewardNarrower topic: Steward’s multilinear model belongs to the broader study of cultural change.

• Cognitive science of religionNarrower topic: Religious cognition is shaped not only by individual minds but also by traits spreading between people.

• Cultural changeNarrower topic: This broader framework models how cultural traits spread and persist over time.

• Evolutionary anthropologyRelated: It explains inherited social patterns through transmission processes distinct from genetic inheritance.

• Human behavioral ecologyRelated: It accounts for learned practices that influence behavior alongside ecological conditions.

• The Golden BoughRelated: Frazer arranged magic, religion, and science as successive stages of thought.

• Arthur de GobineauCompared with: It offers explanations of social change that do not depend on inherited racial character.

• E. O. WilsonCompared with: Wilson’s biological accounts of human behavior faced questions about culture’s independent influence.

• Leslie WhiteNarrower topic: White argued that cultures evolve in general patterns rather than only through unique local histories.

• Marvin HarrisNarrower topic: Harris’s materialist account belongs to a wider tradition explaining cultural change.

• Unilineal evolutionNarrower topic: Unilineal evolution was a specific, directional theory of cultural change.

• Alfred KroeberCompared with: Kroeber rejected simple universal stages of progress associated with nineteenth-century evolutionism.

• Cultural universalRelated: It offers ways to investigate how common practices emerge, spread, and persist.

• Axial AgeNarrower topic: It offers a broad process-based frame for explaining parallel intellectual changes.

• Susan BlackmoreNarrower topic: Blackmore applies evolutionary principles to the spread and variation of cultural information.

• Bandwagon effectNarrower topic: Bandwagon processes can affect which cultural traits spread and persist.

• Evolutionary linguisticsNarrower topic: Languages spread and change through learning, imitation, and interaction.

• Karl LamprechtRelated: His model interpreted cultural history as a sequence of broad developmental phases.

• Sociocultural evolutionBroader topic: It isolates how cultural traits change and spread within broader social transformations.

• Adam KuperCompared with: Kuper’s history of primitive society examines the assumptions behind evolutionary schemes.

• Baldwin effectNarrower topic: The effect is often invoked to explain feedback between cultural practices and biological evolution.

• Evolution (general usage)Broader topic: Ideas and practices can spread and transform through social learning.

• Evolutionary origin of religionNarrower topic: Religious practices can spread and persist through the same broad processes that shape other cultural traits.

• Richard Borshay LeeCompared with: Lee’s comparative work raised questions about generalizing from present-day foragers to human prehistory.