Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin’s finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...
A new study has found that where you live - and who you're surrounded by - has a greater impact on your life than the genes you inherit. Timothy Waring, an associate professor of economics and ...
Researchers at the University of Maine determined culture - which they define as learned knowledge, skills and practices - is becoming the driving force of evolution, helping humans adapt to ...
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...
Genes and culture are deeply intertwined, argues researcher Ryutaro Uchiyama, who has proposed a pioneering new framework reconciling these two areas. Your height, your weight, the music you enjoy ...
This post is in response to How Culture Makes Us Smarter By Steve Stewart-Williams Ph.D. Are we big-brained mammals who have out-evolved ourselves? 'The evidence for the hypothesis that cultural ...
In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...
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