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Human creativity, cultural evolution, and niche construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Dean Keith Simonton
Dean Keith Simonton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8686 dksimonton@ucdavis.edu psychology,ucdavis.edu/option2.htm Simonton
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Abstract

Cultural evolution may be even more prolific in the generation of new forms than is biological evolution – especially when it takes the form of creative genius. Yet evolutionary theories have tended to overlook the factors that might select for outstanding individual creativity. A recent dual-inheritance theory is outlined and then integrated with the niche-construction theory of Laland et al.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 159 - 160
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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