In the past few decades, scholars from several disciplines have pursued the curious parallel noted by Darwin between the genetic evolution of species and the cultural evolution of beliefs, skills, knowledge, languages, institutions, and other forms of socially transmitted information. Here, I review current progress in the pursuit of an evolutionary science of culture that is grounded in both b...

In their book, Resilience and the cultural landscape – understanding and managing change in human-shaped environments, the editors Plieninger and Bieling bring together cultural landscape and resilience approaches to provide new insights into the socialecological resilience of cultural landscapes. They have combined 19 contributions from a broad scholarship of both communities, written in an ac...

This paper attributes to Nietzsche a theory of cultural development according which pyramid societies—steeply hierarchical societies following unified morality—systematically alternate with motley societies, emerge when encounter other cultures or allow their strict mores relax. Motley contain multiple value systems due individual innovation intercultural contact, and are less stringent in dict...

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...