«Societies evolve along a bumpy path — sometimes breaking apart — but the trend is towards larger, more complex arrangements,» said corresponding author Dr Thomas Currie, of the Human Behaviour and
Cultural Evolution Group at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
Not exact matches
So I think the driving force for
cultural evolution is this desire for
groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it.
«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential
cultural and biological interactions between these two human
groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human
Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Due to tremendous variations in climate, indigenous food supplies, environmental conditions and the principles of
evolution, adaptation, and heredity, different
cultural and ethnic
groups, over a period of many centuries, developed distinctly different kinds of dietary requirements...»
The film follows the
group of instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape
cultural evolution and inspire hope.
He participated in The Vader Project (2009) at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and was a part of a
group exhibition entitled Robots: An
Evolution of a
Cultural Icon (2008) at the San Jose Museum of Art, California; Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ.