Meaning of cultural phylogenetics | Babel Free

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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.

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“For a critique of cultural phylogenetics that is nevertheless supportive of cultural evolution theory, see⟳ Borgerhoff Mulder, Nunn, and Towner 2006.”

“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:[…].”

“In sum, the biggest challenge⟳ to cultural phylogenetics remains that, despite the methodological compatibility with biological phylogenetics, many of the concepts and mechanisms of the latter cannot be applied to cultural evolution.”

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