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Balbo, Andrea L; Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), KlimaCampus, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg; Complexity and Socioecological Dynamics (CaSEs), IMF-CSIC; balbo@cantab.net; Mesoudi, Alex; Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter; A.Mesoudi@exeter.ac.uk; Richerson, Peter J; University of California, Davis; University College London; pjricherson@ucdavis.edu; Rubio-Campillo, Xavier; Computer Applications in Science & Engineering, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); xavier.rubio@bsc.es; Shennan, Stephen; Institute of Archaeology, University College London; s.shennan@ucl.ac.uk. |
The last two decades have seen a proliferation of research frameworks that emphasise the importance of understanding adaptive processes that happen at different levels. We contribute to this growing body of literature by exploring how cultural (mal)adaptive dynamics relate to multilevel social-ecological processes occurring at different scales, where the lower levels combine into new units with new organizations, functions, and emergent properties or collective behaviors. After a brief review of the concept of “cultural adaptation” from the perspective of cultural evolutionary theory, the core of the paper is constructed around the exploration of multilevel processes occurring at the temporal, spatial, social, and political scales. We... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Cultural adaptation; Cultural evolution; Multilevel selection; Resilience. |
Ano: 2016 |
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