{"pk":38105,"title":"Evolutionary Decomposition and the Mechanisms of Cultural Change","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Beginning with the Price equation, recent work has developed the method of evolutionary decomposition, an exact partitioning of mean phenotypic change into underlying demographic processes.  We present a method of evolutionary decomposition for human cultural change, and a demonstration of this method on three centuries of half-decadal census records collected from a simulated island population.  By decomposing phenotypic trajectories, we can develop and evaluate suitable hypotheses of the driving mechanisms of cultural evolution.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"cultural evolution, Price equation, evolutionary decomposition, social learning"},{"word":"History"},{"word":"Evolution and Ecology"},{"word":"Anthropology"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w49c6wt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bret","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Beheim","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ryan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Baldini","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Davis","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-03-11T19:10:14Z","date_accepted":"2012-03-11T19:10:14Z","date_published":"2012-12-31T20:02:57Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38105/galley/28673/download/"},{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38105/galley/28674/download/"}]}