The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving

Evidence

But cultural information is not encoded in DNA and, for the longest time, biologists drew a line in the sand with “biological” evolution on one side, and “cultural” evolution on the other. Now that line is disappearing. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contemporary computation’s narrowness stems from its severance from older biological communication systems. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1522; The human-synthetic boundary is performative and politically charged — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1599; Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (+18 more)

Related

• Standard accounts wrongly frame culture as beginning only after genetic evolution finished. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural evolution has been the central driver of human genetic evolution for eons. (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural evolution can create selection pressures stronger than natural ones (similarity 0.81)
• The human-synthetic boundary is performative and politically charged (similarity 0.80)
• Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Marx and Engels saw labor, speech, and brain development as mutually reinforcing evolution #corroborates (0.80)
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.70)
• Material and social reproduction occur simultaneously and inseparably #corroborates (0.65)
• Sexual selection is uniquely directional because the social environment itself evolves with the weapons #exemplifies (0.65)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #expands (0.60)
• Sudden modern noise gives species no evolutionary time to adapt #qualifies (0.60) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 915
• Sexual selection stays directionally constant while physical natural selection oscillates #exemplifies (0.60) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 185
• Social competition environments evolve in tandem with weapons, unlike fluctuating physical environments #exemplifies (0.55) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 182