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Testing the cultural group selection hypothesis in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016
Abstract
We examine the cultural group selection (CGS) hypothesis in light of our fieldwork in Northern Ghana and Oaxaca, highly multi-ethnic regions. Our evidence fails to corroborate two central predictions of the hypothesis: that the cultural group is the unit of evolution, and that cultural homogenization is to be expected as the outcome of a selective process.
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