Biocultural evolution: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 20:52, 27 October 2012

Biocultural evolution^[1] refers to historical evolutionary processes that occur as a result of culture's interaction with biology.

Cultural factors

The human predispositon for culture is perhaps one of the most critical aspects of human evolution and, as such, has had significant effects both on human and nonhuman biology. Given the complexity with which humans express their culture and the cultural interrelation of e.g. ecology and technology, changes in human environmental control is a hallmark of cultural impact on biological systems. These, in turn, affect cultural possibilities and choices.^[2]

Examples

Some examples of biocultural adaptations are lactose tolerance, the result of animal husbandry; the maintenance of the sickle-cell allele in some tropical populations due to the spread of sub-Saharan agriculture and the concomitant spread of malaria; and cold adaptation.

References

^ http://anthro.palomar.edu/synthetic/glossary.htm
^ Grassie, William, "Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion," European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (Barcelona, Spain, 2004)

Bibliography

Adams, Richard N. (1991), "Social Evolution and Social Reproduction", New Literary History, 22 (4): 857–876
Brace, C. Loring (1995), "Biocultural Interaction and the Mechanism of Mosaic Evolution in the Emergence of 'Modern' Morphology", American Anthropologist, 97 (4): 711–721
Lopreato, Joseph (1990), "From Social Evolutionism to Biocultural Evolutionism", Sociological Forum, 5 (2): 187–212
Skoyles, John R.; Sagan, Dorian (2002), Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-137825-1
Wiley, Andrea S. (1992), "Adaptation and the Biocultural Paradigm in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review", Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 6 (3): 216–236

External links

This article relating to anthropology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] ttp://anthro.palomar.edu/synthetic/glossary.htm

[2] Grassie, William, "Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion," European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (Barcelona, Spain, 2004)

[1]

[2]

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 ==Examples==
-Some examples of biocultural adaptations are [[lactose tolerance]], the result of animal husbandry; the maintenance of the [[sickle cell trait|sickle-cell]] [[allele]] in some tropical populations due to the spread of sub-Saharan agriculture and the concomitant spread of malaria, and [[cold adaptation]].
+Some examples of biocultural adaptations are [[lactose tolerance]], the result of animal husbandry; the maintenance of the [[sickle cell trait|sickle-cell]] [[allele]] in some tropical populations due to the spread of sub-Saharan agriculture and the concomitant spread of malaria; and [[cold adaptation]].
 ==See also==