?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+cultural+evolution+of+socially+situated+cognition&rft.creator=Gabora%2C+Dr.++Liane+M.+&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.description=Because+human+cognition+is+creative+and+socially+situated%2C+knowledge+accumulates%2C+diffuses%2C+and+gets+applied+in+new+contexts%2C+generating+cultural+analogs+of+phenomena+observed+in+population+genetics+such+as+adaptation+and+drift.+It+is+therefore+commonly+thought+that+elements+of+culture+evolve+through+natural+selection.+However%2C+natural+selection+was+proposed+to+explain+how+change+accumulates+despite+lack+of+inheritance+of+acquired+traits%2C+as+occurs+with+template-mediated+replication.+It+cannot+accommodate+a+process+with+significant+retention+of+acquired+or+horizontally+(e.g.+socially)+transmitted+traits.+Moreover%2C+elements+of+culture+cannot+be+treated+as+discrete+lineages+because+they+constantly+interact+and+influence+one+another.+It+is+proposed+that+what+evolves+through+culture+is+the+mind%3B+ideas+and+artifacts+are+merely+reflections+of+its+current+evolved+state.+Interacting+minds+transform+(in+part)+through+through+a+non-Darwinian+autopoietic+process+similar+to+that+by+which+early+life+evolved%2C+involving+not+survival+of+the+fittest+but+actualization+of+their+potential.&rft.contributor=Marsh%2C+Dr.++Leslie&rft.date=2008&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5959%2F1%2Fssc.htm&rft.identifier=++Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.+++(2008)+The+cultural+evolution+of+socially+situated+cognition.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5959%2F