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Human evolutionary history and contemporary evolutionary theory provide insight when assessing cultural group selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Agustin Fuentes  and
Marc Kissel
Agustin Fuentes
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. afuentes@nd.edu mkissel@nd.edu http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/agustin-fuentes/ http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/marc-kissel/
Marc Kissel
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. afuentes@nd.edu mkissel@nd.edu http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/agustin-fuentes/ http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/marc-kissel/
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Abstract

Richerson et al. provide a much needed roadmap for assessing cultural group selection (CGS) theory and for applying it to understanding variation between contemporary human groups. However, the current proposal lacks connection to relevant evidence from the human evolutionary record and requires a better integration with contemporary evolutionary theory. The article also misapplies the F st statistic.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e37
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