any trait can be positive, negative, or neutral for evolutionary fitness. If a trait is neutral it can potentially survive and be passed down. There is evoluti

any trait can be positive, negative, or neutral for evolutionary fitness. If a trait is neutral it can potentially survive and be passed down. There is evolutionary fitness at an individual level, but cultures have evolutionary fitness as well. A culture might preserve individuals that have low individual fitness because they create cultural fitness. For example the need to explore and expand the boundaries of knowledge may not be useful at an individual level, however a culture with those individuals might survive better than a culture without. All members of the culture that does not have those individuals may die, even if individuals are very fit. Sociopathy is likely conserved at a cultural level because cultures periodically need sociopaths to completely obliterate competition or ruthlessly compete to survive. Cultures also are constantly spawning mutations (civil rights, black lives matter, nazi ism, capitalism, democracy. social justice etc) those mutations can be positive, negative or neutral. Neutral traits can hang around if they carried alongside traits that do provide cultural fitness.