Cultural Evolution Continues Throughout Life, Mathematical Models Suggest
Friday, August 14, 2009 - 09:14
in Psychology & Sociology
By successively acquiring culture in the form of values, ideas, and actions throughout their lives, humans influence future learning and the capacity for cultural evolution. The number of learning opportunities a person is exposed to is of great importance to that individual’s cultural evolution during his/her lifetime, according to researchers in Sweden. With the aid of mathematical models, these scientists show that there are differences between cultural and biological evolution.