Cultural Coevolution: How the Human Bond with Crows and Ravens Extends Theory and Raises New Questions
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: We propose an additional synergy between human culture and the environment—a coevolution of human and other species’ cultures. We suggest that when humans interact with other social species,who themselves have the ability to evolve culture,then simple feedbacks from a culturally evolving “environment” can stimulate rapid cultural evolution in humans. We term the reciprocal adjustments in two or more species’ cultures “cultural coevolution”(Marzluff and Angell 2005). Cultural …
Authors: John Marzluff, Tony Angell
Institution: University of Washington
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2065318312