Re: Think religion isn't a product of evolutionary forces? Read this.

dkomo <dkomo871@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Natural selection can act on human culture too

"Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Natural selection can act on human culture as
well as on genes, says a new study which shows that cultural traits
affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than
other cultural attributes."

http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_12280_Natural-selection-can-act
-on-human-culture-too.html

Kind of a strange web site. You may see some sexually titillating GIFs
in a sidebar. There should be better source on the above study, but I
don't have time to search this morning.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0711802105v1

Commentary here
<http://archaeology.about.com/b/2008/02/18/cultural-evolution-and-polyne
sian-canoes.htm>
and here
<http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/02/the_cultural_canoe.php


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