Standard accounts wrongly frame culture as beginning only after genetic evolution finished.
Evidence
This is quite different from the usual story. The standard picture of human evolution proposes a long, fairly boring period of genetic evolution that culminated in an explosion of innovation and creativity sometime after 100,000; 50,000; or 10,000 years ago, depending on whom you are reading. After this, genetic evolution seems to stop and cultural evolution takes over. Culture is then divorced from brains and biology, as well as from genetics, and the rest is history. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 1012
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Culture has redirected human genetic evolution since Homo erectus, not only recently. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 1051; Cultural evolution has been the central driver of human genetic evolution for eons. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 1015; Demonstrating learning does not disprove genetic natural selection. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 1131 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving
#corroborates(0.93) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493 - Cultural evolution can create selection pressures stronger than natural ones
#corroborates(0.85) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 282 - Art-historical period concepts fail because cultural change has no real beginnings or endings
#expands(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 662