Biocultural evolution

Biocultural evolution

Biocultural evolution is an evolutionary process that is the result of culture's interaction with biology throughout human evolutionary history.

The human predispositon for culture is perhaps one of the most critical aspects of human evolution and as such has had significant effects both on human and nonhuman biology.

Some examples of biocultural adaptations would be lactose tolerance, the maintenance of the sickle-cell allele in some tropical populations, and cold adaptation.

Bibliography

* ADAMS, Richard N. (1991) "Social Evolution and Social Reproduction" "New Literary History". Volume 22. Number 4. Pages 857-876

* BRACE, C. Loring (1995) "Biocultural Interaction and the Mechanism of Mosaic Evolution in the Emergence of 'Modern' Morphology" "American Anthropologist". Volume 97. Number 4. Pages 711-721.

* LOPREATO, Joseph (1990) "From Social Evolutionism to Biocultural Evolutionism" "Sociological Forum". Volume 5. Number 2. Pages 187-212.

* WILEY, Andrea S (1992) "Adaptation and the Biocultural Paradigm in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review" "Medical Anthropology Quarterly". Volume 6. Number 3. Pages 216-236

ee also

* Biocultural anthropology
* Sociocultural evolution

External links

* [http://anthro.palomar.edu/synthetic/glossary.htm Gloassary including Definition of Biocultural Evolution]


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