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Resistant roots of institutional diversity across societies: An evolutionary framework

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  • Chen, Victor Zitian
  • Cantwell, John

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Consisting of formal and informal rules, cultural-cognitive schema, and routinized processes, institutions are the foundation of social life. Yet we do not have a systematic understanding of resistant roots of institutional diversity across societies. Following an evolutionary framework, we review the literature and discuss how a series of mutually exclusive and sequential “replicators” have come to jointly predispose human behaviors. Through social transmission, these replicators form lineages, which contribute to different levels of societies. We suggest that our review can provide a new research agenda regarding human behaviors in the social sciences.

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  • Chen, Victor Zitian & Cantwell, John, 2019. "Resistant roots of institutional diversity across societies: An evolutionary framework," SocArXiv 3gaqj, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:3gaqj
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3gaqj
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