Culture is driving a major shift in human evolution, new theory proposes. Today, improvements in health, longevity and survival reliably come from group-level cultural systems like scientific medicine 🏥 and hospitals, sanitation infrastructure 🚰 and education systems 📚 rather than individual intelligence 🧠.
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The University of Maine
Culture is driving a major shift in human evolution, new theory proposes
Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford journal BioScience, Timothy M. Waring, an associate professor…
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Some evidence that cultural differences are actually increasing with modernization
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OUP Academic
Is modernization widening cultural differences?
Abstract. Some researchers have argued that modernization is making cultures more individualistic and shrinking cultural differences. Here, I points to cou