Humans evolved specifically to absorb culture along with its prejudgments

Evidence

Similarly, I have predicted a continuing interest in evolutionary and cultural approaches, both efforts to understand prejudgment from a big-picture perspective. Again, these need not be mutually exclusive; people are adapted to absorb culture, and with culture, its prejudgments and social motives. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 353

Categorization

• DEFINE: States a mechanism reconciling evolutionary and cultural explanations of prejudice
• DEEPTHINKING: The point that humans are biologically adapted to absorb cultural prejudgments dissolves a whole false dichotomy — evolution and culture aren’t competing explanations for prejudice, they’re one system.
• XREF: connects to: Long postreproductive human lifespans evolved to transmit accumulated cultural knowledge. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 446; Cultural evolution has been the central driver of human genetic evolution for eons. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 1015; Culture is the arbitrary dressing on universal survival functions. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 116 (+1 more)