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Intelligent design in cultural evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Lee Cronk
Lee Cronk*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ08901-1414http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/cronk.shtml
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lcronk@anthropology.rutgers.edu
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Abstract:

Intelligent design, though unnecessary in the study of biological evolution, is essential to the study of cultural evolution. However, the intelligent designers in question are not deities or aliens but rather humans going about their lives. The role of intentionality in cultural evolution can be elucidated through the addition of signaling theory to the framework outlined in the target article.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 352 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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