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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: Kickle]
#28606925 - 01/02/24 10:55 AM (26 days, 2 hours ago) |
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I think culture is how we coordinate behavioral adaptations to environment.
Desert culture is about surviving in the desert. Arctic culture is about surviving in the arctic. City culture is about surviving in the city (and cities require diversity), farming culture is about serving in farmlands (which requires more homogeneity).
With technology, we are becoming masters of the environment, and culture can now break free from old survival bonds to the environment. We are creating our own environment. I see our current situation partly as a competition for the direction of our culture, it is free to diversify in many directions. Its like an evolutionary process.
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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: Kickle]
#28606951 - 01/02/24 11:26 AM (26 days, 2 hours ago) |
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Kickle said: Maybe? We don't typically call animal survival behaviors culture?
Cultural Evolution in Animals
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In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One meaning of “cultural evolution in animals” refers to these discoveries, and I present an overview of key findings. I then address the other meaning of the term focused on cultural changes within a lineage. Such changes in humans, described as “cumulative cultural evolution,” have been spectacular, but relatively little attention has yet been paid to the topic in nonhuman animals, other than asserting that the process is unique to humans. A variety of evidence including both controlled experiments and field observations has begun to challenge this view, and in some behavioral domains, notably birdsong, cultural evolution has been studied for many years. In this review, I dissect concepts of cultural evolution and cumulative culture and appraise the accumulating evidence bearing on their nature and significance for evolutionary biology at large.
Man on Earth makes a convincing argument about culture adapting us to environment, IMO
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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: Kickle]
#28607019 - 01/02/24 12:17 PM (26 days, 1 hour ago) |
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That seems true. I'm not sure what culture the idea comes from, sometimes its called modernity, or colonialism or 'Western', that all sounds kind of vague, but there is this idea that humans are above and seperate from animals.
I wonder where that comes from, maybe from domestication of animals
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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: Nillion]
#28607064 - 01/02/24 12:58 PM (26 days, 32 minutes ago) |
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sounds like a fun book
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