Information for Borrowing on Explaining Human Culture

Borrowing

Main Author	Published Year	Title		Document Type	Number of Hypotheses
Naroll, Raoul	1976	Borrowing versus migration as selection factors in cultural evolution		Article	1	Cite Related Documents More By Author

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Naroll, Raoul	1976	Over the general course of evolution during the past several thousand years [peaceful] borrowing has been at least as important a selection factor as has been [warlike] migration. Triads consisting of 1) base society 2) nearby society from different language family (borrowers) and 3) distant society from same language family as base society (migrators) were compared for eleven culture traits (209, 204)	Supported	13	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author