Previous articleNext article No AccessDiscussion and CriticismOn Misconceptions of Evolutionary Archaeology: Confusing Macroevolution and MicroevolutionR.LeeLyman and MichaelJ.OBrienR.LeeLymanDepartment of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 65211, U.S.A. 4 i 01 Search for more articles by this author and MichaelJ.OBrienDepartment of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 65211, U.S.A. 4 i 01 Search for more articles by this author Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 65211, U.S.A. 4 i 01PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 42, Number 3June 2001 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/320477 Views: 189Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Michael J. O'Brien More on Clovis Learning: Individual-level Processes Aggregate to Form Population-level Patterns, PaleoAmerica 5, no.22 (May 2019): 157–168.https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2019.1600126Michael J. O’Brien, Matthew T. Boulanger, Briggs Buchanan, R. Alexander Bentley, R. Lee Lyman, Carl P. Lipo, Mark E. Madsen, Metin I. Eren Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23, no.22 (Jul 2015): 692–740.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9258-7Melinda A. Zeder Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory, Evolutionary Ecology 30, no.22 (Mar 2016): 325–348.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9801-8Colin P. Quinn Signals in Stone: Exploring the Role of Social Information Exchange, Conspicuous Consumption, and Costly SignalingTheory in Lithic Analysis, (Jan 2015): 198–222.https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207775.015Cameron A. Petrie “Culture”, Innovation and Interaction Across Southern Iran from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 6500–3000 bc), (May 2011): 151–182.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6970-5_8Michael J. O’Brien A Few Misconceptions about Cultural Evolution, Cultural Science Journal 3, no.11 (Dec 2010).https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.25Michael J. O’Brien The Future of Paleolithic Studies: A View from the New World, (Aug 2010): 311–334.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6861-6_14Melinda A. Zeder The Neolithic Macro-(R)evolution: Macroevolutionary Theory and the Study of Culture Change, Journal of Archaeological Research 17, no.11 (Sep 2008): 1–63.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-008-9025-3Melinda A. Zeder Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of Agriculture: The Value of Co-opted Models of Evolution in the Study of Culture Change, (Aug 2009): 157–210.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_7R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien Evolutionary archaeology is unlikely to go extinct: response to Gabora, World Archaeology 38, no.44 (Dec 2006): 697–703.https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240600963460R. Alexander Bentley, Stephen J. Shennan Cultural Transmission and Stochastic Network Growth, American Antiquity 68, no.33 (Jan 2017): 459–485.https://doi.org/10.2307/3557104Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, Robert D. Leonard What Is Evolution? A Response to Bamforth, American Antiquity 68, no.33 (Jan 2017): 573–580.https://doi.org/10.2307/3557109