Abstract
AbstractCulture can be defined as a source of information with the potential capability of affecting the behavioural patterns of members of a population. This information can be any kind of mental state, such as beliefs, habits, skills, traditions, art, etc., which are transmissible to others using teaching, imitation, and other forms of social interactions. Based on the biocultural evolution theory, genes and culture can be viewed as two interacting forms of inheritance. This means that human behaviour is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes, genetic evolution and cultural evolution. In this chapter, the basic and general concepts of human cultural evolution in real human societies are discussed.KeywordsCultureCultural evolutionGenetic evolutionSocial learningCultural variants
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