Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change

By Kevin N. Laland, J. Odling-Smee, Michal Feldman. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2000

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007, background): “This process offers a dramatic example of a Baldwin effect, in which learning shapes adaptive behavior patterns that create new selection forces that rapidly facilitate better ability to exploit the new niche (Dennett 1995; Laland et al. 2000; Weber and Depew 2003; West-Eberhard 2003; Ananth 2005).”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “…basis of this behaviour is very likely to be identification with the group, in the context of cultural group selection (Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman 1973)—which requires, as its fundamental component, very strongly conformist cultural transmission (Laland et al. 2000; Richerson & Boyd 2005).”
Does social/cultural learning increase human adaptability?: Rogers's question revisited (2003, neutral): “" Culture " at this level (i.e., behavioral variations acquired and maintained by social learning) is widely observed in the animal kingdom (e.g., Galef & Whiskin, 2001; Giraldeau & Caraco, 2000; Heys & Galef, 1996; Laland et al., 2000; Lefebvre, 2000; Rendell & Whitehead, 2001).”
ANNIVERSARY ESSAY The case for developmental ecology (2003, neutral): “Specifically, animals inherit provisions, nest sites, migration routes, territories or social rank, properties directly correlated with their genetic inheritance (West et al. 1988; Mousseau & Fox 1998; Wolf et al. 1999; Laland et al. 2000).”
Social learning strategies (2004, background): “At the same time, by creating environments with transgenerational stability, through our niche construction we humans modify our worlds in such a way as to facilitate effective learned information transmission between individualsand across generations ( Laland, Odling-Smee, & Feldman, 2000; Odling-”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Niche construction offers another way of integrating both human and nonhuman agency with a biological and cultural evolutionary framework (Laland et al. 2000).”
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010, background): “Some organism-driven changes in environments persist as a legacy to modify selection on subsequent generations, which Odling-Smee (1988) called an “ecological inheritance.” Population-genetic models reveal that this ecological inheritance generates unusual evolutionary dynamics ( Laland et al. 1996,”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…increasingly complex and powerful cultural traits such as cultural institutions (e.g., languages, legal systems) and advanced technologies (projectile weapons, the automobile) that enable cultural accumulation to accelerate across generations (Tomasello 1999, Laland et al. 2000, Dean et al. 2014).”
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (2002, background): “Humans are particularly adept at constructing their niche and hence it is even conceivable that the modern world has actually been fashioned by us to suit our psychological and behavioural adaptations (Laland et al., 2000), a hypothesis that would mean that the amount of ‘adaptive lag’ has been grea”
Human nature and cognitive–developmental niche construction (2010, background): “But this control extends much further when agents ‘define, choose, modify and partly create their own niches’ (Laland et al. 2000, 131).”
Minds: extended or scaffolded? (2010, background): “Many of the examples that motivate the extended mind picture can be seen as special cases of niche construction, cases in which human competences depend intimately on the environment being scaffolded to support adaptive decision making (Laland 2007; Laland et al. 2000; Odling-Smee et al. 2003).”