We specify how variation in buffering through cultural niche construction could explain geographical variation in human genes. A further source of evidence for gene–culture co-evolution comes ...

Their cultural variation and complexity pertains almost entirely to matters ... Open-endedness, as a unique human quality, is not just about variety; it reflects the quantum leaps by which our ...

The regular emergence of psychological variation supports this adaptability ... we leave our mark on the cultural history of human psychology. In exceptional cases, our psychological innovations ...

Using this data set, we were able to generate a range of estimates for just how much of human cultural variation can be explained by ecology. We ran a series of statistical models looking at the ...

Surprisingly, the human children performed better in only one capacity ... Other animals are much more judicious. Their cultural variation and complexity pertains almost entirely to matters of ...

Nevertheless, human culture is clearly qualitatively distinct ... the non-random generation of variation, the scope of heritable variation, effects on organism fitness, effects on genetic fitness ...

Surprisingly, the human children performed better in only ... Other animals are much more judicious. Their cultural variation and complexity pertains almost entirely to matters of subsistence ...