Sacred text as cultural genome: an inheritance mechanism and method for studying cultural evolution

Any process of evolution requires a mechanism of inheritance for the transmission of information across generations and the expression of phenotypes during each generation. Genetic inheritance mechanisms have been studied for over a century but mechanisms of inheritance for human cultural evolution...

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Authors: Hartberg, Yasha M. (Author) ; Wilson, David Sloan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 178-190
Further subjects:B Cultural Evolution
B inheritance mechanisms
B Epigenetics
B Evolution
B Genetics
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