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'''Dual inheritance theory''', or '''DIT''', posits that humans are products of both biological [[evolution]] and [[cultural evolution]], each subject to their own selective mechanisms and forms of transmission. The focus of research is therefore on both the mechanisms of cultural transmission and the selective pressures that influence cultural change.
==Evolution and Populations==
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Contemporary work in the dual inheritance/gene-culture coevolution tradition includes [[empirical studies]] designed to [[experiment|test]] ideas, (e.g. simulations, cross-cultural studies), derived from the [[mathematical theory]]. Presently, DIT is much more developed theoretically than it is empirically.
==See also==
* [[Cultural evolution]]
* [[Evolutionary psychology]]
* [[Human behavioral ecology]]
* [[List of publications on evolution and human behavior]]
* [[Sociobiology]]
==References==
* Boyd, Rob & Richerson, Peter. (2001). [http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/richerson/Speed_PhilLife.pdf Built For Speed, Not for Comfort: Darwinian Theory and Human Culture]. In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23: 423-463.
* Smith, Eric Alden (1999). [http://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/ThreeStyles.pdf Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior] in Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon and William Irons '''Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective''', 27-48, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
[[Category:Evolution]]
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