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Evolución cultural y adaptación

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    Identifier: TDX:750
    Authors:
    Baravalle, Lorenzo
    Abstract:
    The main objective of this work is to show how can we explain culture within a general Darwinian, naturalistically acceptable framework. To do so, I first reconsider the two main theories that have been proposed with a similar goal: sociobiology and memetics. Concerning the first one, I preserve the idea that every cultural event depends in the long run on a pure biological conditioning. Regarding the latter, I accept that there is a sense of adaptation different from simple development of fitness. My second task is to explain why certain cultural phenomena, maladaptations, are not adaptive in the 'increase of fitness' sense, and present and apply an explanatory scheme that accounts for cultural phenomena in a new adaptative manner. In order to articulate these theses in a new proposal, I make use of some work by Boyd and Richerson and introduce the main distinction between first and second order adaptations.
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    Date: 2010-05-19
    Departament/Institute: Departament de Psicologia Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Language: spa
    Identifier: urn:isbn:9788469354179 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8972
    Source: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
    Author: Baravalle, Lorenzo
    Director: García-Albea Ristol, José Eugenio
    Format: application/pdf
    Publisher: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Keywords: Evolució Adaptació Sociobiologia i Memes
    Title: Evolución cultural y adaptación
    Subject: 572 - Antropologia 57 - Biologia 13 - Filosofia de la ment i de l'esperit. Ciències ocultes 11 - Metafísica
  • Keywords:

    572 - Antropologia
    57 - Biologia
    13 - Filosofia de la ment i de l'esperit. Ciències ocultes
    11 - Metafísica
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