{"id":7644,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cultural_evolution_and_biological_evolution\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:06","slug":"cultural_evolution_and_biological_evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cultural_evolution_and_biological_evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural evolution and biological evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The theoretical stance adopted in sociobiology and its successor evolutionary psychology that biological and cultural evolution co-evolve, a sort of Darwinian theory of culture, and termed a ‘feedback reciprocal relation’ by Theodosius Dobzhansky<\/a> (1900-1975).  Accordingly, there is a direct co-evolutionary relationship between genes and culture such that changes in one can lead to changes in the other.  An alternative view is that the relationship is indirect: biological and cultural evolution are interacting, but potentially independent, processes that result in human phenotypes evolving in the direction of states that maximise inclusive fitness.  As a consequence, cultural evolution has the property of emergent novelty that cannot be reduced to the action of genes.  It is important to point out that the term ‘co-evolution’ has another connotation in evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n

See Biological evolution<\/a>, Co-evolution<\/a>, Cultural evolution<\/a>, Cultural selection<\/a>, Emergence<\/a>, Evolutionary psychology<\/a>, Gene<\/a>, Genotype and phenotype<\/a>, Inclusive fitness<\/a>, Meme<\/p>\n

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The theoretical stance adopted in sociobiology and its successor evolutionary psychology that biological and cultural evolution co-evolve, a sort of Darwinian theory of culture, and termed a ‘feedback reciprocal relation’ by Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975).  Accordingly, there is a direct co-evolutionary relationship between genes and culture such that changes in one can lead to changes in … <\/p>\n

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