 ##  [Cultural Convergence](/index.php/cultural-convergence) 

  ##  [Cultural Convergence](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/cultural-convergence-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

The independent emergence of similar cultural traits, institutions or solutions in different societies as a response to analogous environmental, functional or social pressures, distinct from similarity caused by contact, diffusion, or common ancestry; identification requires excluding plausible pathways of transmission.