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The Cultural Evolution of Human Goals

2026-05-10

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<p>Humans pursue remarkably diverse goals that vary over time and across cultures. These goals are both drivers and products of cultural evolutionary dynamics, yet most theories of cultural evolution have focused on the influence of culture on how individuals reach their goals, rather than on which goals they pursue. We argue that understanding the cultural dynamics of goals requires grounding them in the cognitiv...

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Literature Corpus work: 0526ebca-2023-51dd-a71d-db1fad516042
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4t857_v1

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