Cultural Evolution

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Cultural Evolution.

• Cultural hitchhiking — A gene-culture coevolution process in which selection on socially learned traits reduces diversity at genetically neutral loci transmitted through the same population lineages.
• Cultural selection theory — A family of evolutionary accounts explaining cultural change through variation, differential transmission or retention, and lineage-like inheritance.