摘要：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.
关键词：cultural evolution, Price equation, evolutionary decomposition, social learning; Arts and Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Evolution and Ecology
