Although cultural evolution clearly outpaces genetic evolution in the natural world due to its higher rates of reproduction, recombination and selection, it does so built on biological foundations. In the natural world, cultural change takes place in minutes, days, years or decades, whereas genetic change takes at least a decade and a half. In the natural and cultural worlds the media of evolut...

Scenes are important carriers of cultural expression. Cultural landscapes reveal specific connotations through various scenes, and people understand give things scenes. In recent years, new techniques for visualizing landscape heritage have been made possible by the advent mapping geographic information technology. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal’s culture is a “living” legacy. As one key link...

The color appearance of cultural heritage are essential factors for manufacturing technique interpretation, conservation treatment usage, and condition monitoring. Therefore, this study systematically established reproduction procedures based on the digital management system portrait Gwon Eungsu. Moreover, various application strategies recording conserving were proposed. Overall processes cond...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

This article addresses some of the interpretations that have consolidated cultural- symbolic-cultural imaginary Basque farmhouse, and then broadens form approaching narrative its identity. From notion prototype to infrastructure, from anthropological object artistic object, farmhouse is conceived as a framework, with an axis open unfoldings go beyond reproduction essential image. Concepts relat...

The article considers the universal-cultural structure of one dialogues Н. Skovoroda – «The grateful Erodius» with a focus on universals culture, namely, alimentary worldview code. analytical separation this code from its close interweaving categories ultimate bases (life, death, immortality) and other codes showed that, in addition to describing specifics nutrition main character work, Erodius...

Due to a typesetting error, the Funding section is missing in this article. The Funding section should read as follows: "The work was supported by NIH grant NS051255 (A.B.) and grants from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (J.A.) and Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation (J. A.)." The publisher apologizes for this error. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Att...