Human evolutionary history and contemporary evolutionary theory provide insight when assessing cultural group selection

Agustin Fuentes; Marc Kissel

doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000102

Human evolutionary history and contemporary evolutionary theory provide insight when assessing cultural group selection

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Richerson et al. provide a much needed roadmap for assessing cultural group selection (CGS) theory and for applying it to understanding variation between contemporary human groups. However the current proposal lacks connection to relevant evidence from the human evolutionary record and requires a better integration with contemporary evolutionary theory. The article also misapplies the Fst statistic.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e37
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15000102
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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Human evolutionary history and contemporary evolutionary theory provide insight when assessing cultural group selection

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