What's the most important force in who we are? Genes? Experience? RyutaroUchiyama asks: How about culture?
Human psychology is a product of cultural evolution.What is culture? If you search for the meaning of this word, you will most likely come across a list. For example, you might learn that culture consists of the art, clothing, cuisine, language, skills, technology, family structure, communal norms, religious practices, and worldview of a group of people. Thisapproach to the concept of culture is unsatisfactory, in part because people will always disagree about what to include in the list.
For most animal species, reliable transmission of cultural traits across generations is challenging. Even if a non-cultural animal comes up with a remarkable behavioral innovation, the skill will die with its innovator as the population is unable to sustain it over time.But humans are a notable exception. We instruct, we enforce, we codify, we comply, we, we imitate—such forms of cultural transmission are where we excel.
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