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Ethnologia Europaea, Apr 1, 1993

Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia, May 1, 2015

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2015

List of Tables viii 1 Introduction The purpose and scope of this report Some qualifications Our s... more List of Tables viii 1 Introduction The purpose and scope of this report Some qualifications Our sources Outline of the report Prospects for the future 2 The Value of the Humanities Introduction Intrinsic value Social value Heritage, culture, memory The economic value of the humanities Contribution to other disciplines Innovation Critical thinking Personal and spiritual development Aesthetic appreciation A distributional survey of the interview responses Strategies for justification Conclusions 3 The Nature of the Humanities Part I Thematic orientations Part II Reactions to the term 'findings' Knowledge Breakthroughs Perception of the humanities Conclusion vi Contents 4 The Digital Humanities The world of professional digital humanists Research trends Resistance to digital humanities Interview responses Conclusion 5 Translating the Humanities Translational research practices Translational medicine Evidence from interviews Evidence from national reports Conclusion 6 The Culture of Humanities Research 7 Funding and Infrastructure Core funding for research Non-governmental funding in developing countries Competitive funding streams in developed countries Research institutes Infrastructure Conclusion

Theoretical Population Biology, Aug 1, 2008

Historical records show that culture can increase exponentially in time, e.g., in number of poems... more Historical records show that culture can increase exponentially in time, e.g., in number of poems, musical works, scientific discoveries. We model how human capacities for creativity and cultural transmission may make such an increase possible, suggesting that: (1) creativity played a major role at the origin of human culture and for its accumulation throughout history, because cultural transmission cannot, on its own, generate exponentially increasing amounts of culture; (2) exponential increase in amount of culture can only occur if creativity is positively influenced by culture. The evolution of cultural transmission is often considered the main genetic bottleneck for the origin of culture, because natural selection cannot favor cultural transmission without any culture to transmit. Our models suggest that an increase in individual creativity may have been the first step toward human culture, because in a population of creative individuals there may be enough non-genetic information to favor the evolution of cultural transmission.

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