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Theorists are interested in the abstract properties of such evolutionary models. [[Empiricists]] are interested in finding the models that best describe actual evolving systems. Real world practitioners are interested in predicting the outcomes of policies that might improve or harm the quality of a firm’s or an economy’s work force.

==Topics of intersetinterest in dual inheritance theory==

Substantive questions that have interested dual inheritance theorists include

* the [[adaptive]] costs and benefits of culture

* the apparent rarity of cultural learning mechanisms in nature

* the [[cognitive]] processes underlying cultural learning and transmimissiontransmission, (i.e. social learning)

* the influence of gene-culture coevolution on human [[psychology]] and the histories of human societies

* rates of different kinds of cultural evolution