title: How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection.
abstract: Driven by intergroup competition, social norms, beliefs, and practices can evolve in ways that more effectively tap into a wide variety of evolved psychological mechanisms to foster group-beneficial behavior. The more powerful such evolved mechanisms are, the more effectively culture can potentially harness and manipulate them to generate greater phenotypic variation across groups, thereby fueling cultural group selection.
authors: Department of Human Evolutionary Biology,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA 02138.
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Henrich
authors: School of Human Evolution and Social Change,Arizona State University,Tempe,AZ 85287.robert.t.boyd@gmail.comhttp://robboyd.abcs.asu.edu/
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Boyd
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D066262:Social Norms