Cultural Evolution is a study that focuses on how cultures change and evolve over time.
Cultural evolution examines:
The effects of colonization and other disruptive forces on human organization.
Sharing of cultural aspects, traditions and rituals.
Creative and Destructive forces within and between cultural groups
Civilization growth and collapse.
Cultural impacts on the environment
Culture shaping of human evolution
Just as we need to stop thinking of evolution as a hierarchical tree, cultural evolution flows and recombines in various ways.
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