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Evolution by natural selection is simply too slow, too short-sighted and stupid, too unresponsive to the challenges generated by our concurrent cultural evolution.

Is cultural evolution out-running our brains? To answer this question, we need data that look at rates of cultural evolution and our brain's ability to deal with what's coming in.

Culture is an under-appreciated factor in human evolution, Waring says. Like genes, culture helps people adjust to their environment and meet the challenges of survival and reproduction.

Cultural evolution is distinct from genetic evolution in that it involves abstract behaviors that are passed down to offspring, rather than utilizing DNA or RNA. Tool use among chimpanzees is a ...

Evolution has been a cornerstone of the biological sciences for the better part of a century. Rarely, however, has evolutionary science been considered valuable in understanding contemporary human ...

For centuries, Korea has stood at the heart of fermentation culture. Traditional Korean alcohols made from rice, nuruk ...

This approach to the cultural evolution of cognition is relatively new, and Thompson notes that more studies are needed to understand how cognitive algorithms evolve in and out of the laboratory, ...

The cultural evolution of collective property rights. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Journal Nature Sustainability DOI 10.1038/s41893-024-01290-1. Keywords ...

Great discovery identifies the Hellenistic monumental complex that exists in Exogi, in the north of the island, with the ...

New important data on the historical and cultural evolution of Ithaca has emerged from the University of Ioannina research at the archaeological site known as Homer's School since the start of the ...