Agner Fog, Ph.D.

Publications on
Cultural Selection

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Can a collapse of current economic empires be predicted?. A look into the future, and a test of the predictive powers of various economic, cultural, historic, social, psychological and evolutionary theories. Manuscript, June 2014.
Why are cultures warlike or peaceful? Test of regality theory on 186 non-industrial societies. Regality theory is explained and discussed, and the predictions of the theory are tested on ethnographic data. Manuscript, August 2013.
Cultural Selection. Book. Dordrecht: Kluwer 1999.
Towards a universal theory of competition and selection. A unified theory for understanding the possible consequences of competition in many different fields, including evolution, economics, democratic elections, attention catching, social prestige, sports, war, game theory, etc. Working paper, 2013.
The gap between cultural selection theory and sociology. Paper presented at the 2003 meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
An Evolutionary Theory of Cultural Differentiation. Proceedings of the XV world congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Lisbon 2006. Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 2009.
The supposed and the real role of mass media in modern democracy. Working paper, 2013.
Explaining unintended developments with cultural selection theory. Draft article 2003.
Why terrorism doesn't work. Draft article 2002.
Cultural r/k selection in Journal of Memetics 1997.

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