"cultural phylogenetics" meaning in English

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          "text": "For a critique of cultural phylogenetics that is nevertheless supportive of cultural evolution theory, see Borgerhoff Mulder, Nunn, and Towner 2006.",
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          "ref": "2016, Ilya Tëmkin, “Chapter 16: Homology and Phylogenetic Inference in Biological and Material Cultural Evolution”, in Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli, editors, Understanding Cultural Traits, Springer, page 308",
          "text": "Focusing on just a single aspect of cultural phylogenetics—homology of man-made objects—exposed many avenues for future theoretical and methodological developments in sociocultural evolution:[…].",
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        "(anthropology) The use of techniques from phylogenetics to study the evolutionary history of relationships between humans and between groups of humans, as well as of cultural memes and practices."
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