title: Testing the cultural group selection hypothesis in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca.
abstract: We examine the cultural group selection (CGS) hypothesis in light of our fieldwork in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca, highly multi-ethnic regions. Our evidence fails to corroborate two central predictions of the hypothesis: that the cultural group is the unit of evolution, and that cultural homogenization is to be expected as the outcome of a selective process.
authors: Human Evolution and Cognition, University of the Balearic Islands, Campus Carretera Valldemossa, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. cacedo33@hotmail.com toni.gomila@uib.cat http://www.evocog.organtonigomila.wordpress.com
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Acedo-Carmona
authors: Human Evolution and Cognition, University of the Balearic Islands, Campus Carretera Valldemossa, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. cacedo33@hotmail.com toni.gomila@uib.cat http://www.evocog.organtonigomila.wordpress.com
authors: Antoni
authors: A
authors: Gomila
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity; D005869:Ghana; D006801:Humans