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Whether or not this is the case (although a handful of papers and one of Graeber's pop-sci books hardly makes it "settled"), all this deals with time periods fa
by jhbadger 4y ago
Whether or not this is the case (although a handful of papers and one of Graeber's pop-sci books hardly makes it "settled"), all this deals with time periods far too recent for evolutionary biology to play a role in human behavior. Cultural "evolution" has nothing to do with actual evolution.
- haswell 4y ago> Cultural "evolution" has nothing to do with actual evolution. I can't imagine this could be strictly true. It's not as if human's social capacity turned on one day at full capacity, and the social hardware was complete. I do think it's fair to say that society evolves at a different pace given the capabilities of our current social software, but all such change is still underpinned by biological evolution before it. I sometimes wonder how far we can go as a species before we start malfunctioning widely, e.g. recent study [0] about schizophrenia that finds it non-existent in hunter/gatherer societies, and city living potentially playing a factor for some individuals. - [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422003839 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoNor am I suggesting as such
- msmenardi 4y agoThis is totally wrong - people are much different in 2023 compared to earlier in our lifetimes, even people from 1990 would seem completely different to us now. Cultural evolution is a type of evolution, it's not a "fake" version or something like that.