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This is also ignoring a crucial aspect of human behavior: we have moved past simple evolutionary optimization. Our behaviors can now change very rapidly due to
by machinerychorus 5y ago
This is also ignoring a crucial aspect of human behavior: we have moved past simple evolutionary optimization. Our behaviors can now change very rapidly due to spoken and written language. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins called this "memetics". E.O. Wilson also wrote about this, I think referring to it as "culture" (I don't remember in which book, sorry). Evolution is still necessary for understanding human behavior, but it is not sufficient by itself.