Genes, culture, and the human niche
An overview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18929312 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M J O''Brien (0000-0001-6433-8295, Department of Communications, History, and Philosophy Texas A&M University—San Antonio San Antonio Texas USA, corresponding author), R A Bentley (0000-0001-9086-2197, Department of Anthropology and Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-49 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1538 • E-ISSN: 1520-6505 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/evan.21865 |
| PMID | 32986264 |
| OpenAlex | W3089142260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 90 |
The sharp distinction between biological traits and culturally based traits, which had long been standard in evolutionary approaches to behavior, was blurred in the early 1980s by mathematical models that allowed a co‐dependent evolution of genetic transmission and cultural information. Niche‐construction theory has since added another contrast to standard evolutionary theory, in that it views niche construction as a cause of evolutionary change rather than simply a product of selection. While offering a new understanding of the coevolution of genes, culture, and human behavior, niche‐construction models also invoke multivariate causality, which require multiple time series to resolve. The empirical challenge lies in obtaining time‐series data on causal pathways involved in the coevolution of genes, culture, and behavior. This is a significant issue in archeology, where time series are often sparse and causal behaviors are represented only by proxies in the material record
Biology · Causality (physics) · Coevolution · Cultural transmission in animals · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Evolutionary theory · Niche · Niche construction · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolution and Science Education · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution
Humanos y fauna invertebrada
The ripples of modernity
Using niche construction theory to generate testable foraging hypotheses at Liang Bua
The concept of adaptive types in modern human ecology research
The Tool Systems Approach
It Takes Two to Tango
Parallel evolution in human populations
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture
Convergent Evolution of Prehistoric Technologies
Culture and Evolvability
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought
What’s New in Applications of Evolutionary Theory to the Zooarchaeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers
Magnetic properties as indicators of pedogenic and pyrogenic processes at the Upper Paleolithic site of Kostenki 14
Archaeological and geoarchaeological properties of functional areas at the Upper Paleolithic site of Zaraysk, East European plain
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution
Niche construction to social sciences
An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy
Niche Construction
The Point Is the Point
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology
Niche Construction
Foraging and farming as niche construction
Human cumulative culture
Ratcheting up the ratchet
Genetic Signatures of Strong Recent Positive Selection at the Lactase Gene
Evolution of lactase persistence
When the World’s Population Took Off
Causal diagrams for empirical research
Cultural Niche Construction
Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium bc in northern Europe
Emulation, imitation, over-imitation and the scope of culture for child and chimpanzee
Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory
Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
Ecological consequences of human niche construction
Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding
Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality
The Method of Path Coefficients
How culture shaped the human genome
Cause and Effect in Biology
The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods
The prevalence and importance of niche construction in agricultural development in Polynesia
Mathematical Evolutionary Theory
Cultural transmission and evolution
Coevolution
Niche Construction and Theory of Agricultural Origins. Case studies in punctuated equilibrium
Niche construction, human behavior, and the adaptive-lag hypothesis
Population Structure, Cultural Transmission, and Frequency Seriation
The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and innovation
Cultural learning and the Clovis colonization of North America
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology
A Comparison of Niche Construction Theory and Diet Breadth Models as Explanatory Frameworks for the Initial Domestication of Plants and Animals
Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SW Asia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry
Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions
Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory
A 3D morphometric analysis of surface geometry in Levallois cores
Cultural transmission, copying errors, and the generation of variation in material culture and the archaeological record
Neolithic transition in Europe
The origins and spread of stock-keeping
On the relevance of the European Neolithic
Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis
Towards an archaeology of pedagogy
Cultural Traits
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Ethnography, and the Human Niche
Genes, Culture, and Agriculture
The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology I
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |