Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...

Recently, I was walking with some fellow parents after nursery drop-off when we came across a five-pound note lying on the pavement. We stood around it for a moment, a bit awkwardly, until someone ...

Introduction : Darwinism in dispute -- What is cultural evolutionary theory? -- The kinetic theory of culture -- 'Culture is information' -- Human nature in theory -- Human nature in practice -- The ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

This blog was co-authored by Lene Rachel Andersen and Joe Michalski. In her book, Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World, Lene Rachel Andersen traces the evolution of culture and human ...