The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Vol 73, No 3
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71 (4):1209-1233 ()
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A leading idea of cultural evolutionary theory is that for human cultures to undergo evolutionary change, cultural transmission must generally serve as a high-fidelity copying process. In a...Author's Profile
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