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cultural phylogenetics

cultural phylogenetics noun: 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.

Noun

cultural phylogenetics (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • For a critique of cultural phylogenetics that is nevertheless supportive of cultural evolution theory, see Borgerhoff Mulder, Nunn, and Towner 2006.2011, Alex Mesoudi, Cultural Evolution, University of Chicago Press, page 230
    • 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:[…].2016, Ilya Tëmkin, “Chapter 16: Homology and Phylogenetic Inference in Biological and Material Cultural Evolution”, in Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli, editors, Understanding Cultural Traits...

Questions about cultural phylogenetics

What does cultural phylogenetics mean?
Cultural phylogenetics means 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.
What part of speech is cultural phylogenetics?
Cultural phylogenetics is a noun.

Words near cultural phylogenetics in the dictionary

  1. cultural mosaic
  2. cultural mosaics
  3. cultural patrimonies
  4. cultural patrimony
  5. cultural pessimism
  6. cultural phylogenetics
  7. cultural practitioner
  8. cultural practitioners
  9. Cultural Revolution
  10. cultural script
  11. cultural scripts

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