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Biosociological ethodiversity in the social system

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: A comprehensive understanding of human sociality needs to embrace the coevolution of genes and culture. Recent advances in biological research about niche construction by organisms, and the development of the concepts of social niche and ethodiversity, can be integrated into a common approach to understand this coevolution, which implies the interaction between sociology and ecology in an integrative framework of knowledge. In this paper the authors propose such inclusive biosociological and heuristic framework to improve the understanding of the evolution of social niche construction. In addition, it allows a better understanding of the concept of sociotype in non-human organisms and explains some aspects of the social or presocial behavior through the concept of ethodiversity.

Source: Biosystems

DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104552

Authors: Juan R. Coca, Alberto Soto, Cristina Mesquita, Rui Pedro Lopes, Adolfo Cordero-Rivera

Institutions: Universidad de Valladolid, Universidade Politécnica de Bragança, Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Universidade de Vigo

Language: English

Topic: Language and cultural evolution

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,100

Funders: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Universidade de Vigo