NICHE CONSTRUCTION AND GENE-CULTURE COEVOLUTION: AN EVOLUTIONARY BASIS FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES

摘要: Traditionally evolutionary theory treats the adaptations of organisms as consequences a process whereby natural selection moulds to fit pre-established environments. The changes that themselves cause in their own environments are seldom through be evolutionarily significant. However, active partly create selective by “niche construction,” and ancestral can pass on legacies modified pressures descendants. In this chapter, we build conventional adding niche construction. We argue resulting enhanced evolution provides better basis for understanding how human cultural processes interact with genetic evolution, discuss construction may have co-directed, still co-directing, evolution.