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Pocklington, Richard.

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Selection, phylogeny and adaptation in cultural evolution.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Selection, phylogeny and adaptation in cultural evolution./
作者:	Pocklington, Richard.
面頁冊數:	189 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0231.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
標題:	Folklore. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3162343
ISBN:	0496962302

Selection, phylogeny and adaptation in cultural evolution.
Pocklington, Richard.

Selection, phylogeny and adaptation in cultural evolution. - 189 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0231.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

I develop a theory of cultural evolution which unifies strands of thought drawn from behavioral ecology, cladistics, cultural transmission theory, French structuralism, Russian formalism, memetics, natural language processing, text retrieval and evolutionary anthropology. Culturally transmitted units (CTUs) are discerned using a "Cultural-Unit Transmission Integrity Assay" and a test for the "Assessment of Hierarchical Cluster Structure". CTUs are the largest units of socially transmitted information that reliably and repeatedly withstand transmission. Selection in cultural systems acts most strongly at the level where CTUs replicate most frequently. Adaptation occurs at the level of selection.

ISBN: 0496962302Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Characters found within myths may act as CTUs. Selection on characters within tales adapts characters to better fit into tales. The trickster has adaptations (many names, wandering, sex changing and shape changing) which suit the character to many tales. The inconsistent personality of the trickster is a cognitive illusion resulting from knowledge of tales which present a single character in inconsistent narratives. Characteristics of mythic creatures (such as invisibility) are adaptations which help prevent the tales containing such creatures from being disproved.
520 $a Latent semantic indexing is used to reveal the structure of myths. Dumezil's hypothesis regarding the tripartite structure of the Indo-European pantheon into priests, warriors and workers is supported. The Rig Veda has a structural axis of opposition between dryness and wetness (c.f. Levi-Strauss).
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