Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- The trajectory of life on Earth has always been predicated by genetic evolution, but two scientists from the University of Maine argue that culture is now the main force shaping our lives.
- A new study analyzes this phenomenon and attempts to quantify the evolutionary transition coming with it.
- Although a gene-culture coevolution framework can be incredibly adaptable, the authors’ earlier work argues that its foundation in resource extraction and sub-global groups could make solving problems like climate change particularly challenging.
For the billions of years that life has been on Earth, genetic evolution has been in the driver’s seat, slowly but steadily honing species as they face various environmental pressures. And then, roughly 600,000 years ago (by some estimates), a particularly big-brained member of the Great Ape family began displaying evidence of cumulative culture, as evidenced by increasingly complex stone tools. Those early technological steps blossomed into full, complex societies that have taken over from genetics as the key driver of evolution, according to a new paper by Timothy Waring and Zachary Wood at the University of Maine.
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