Culture and the Direction of Human Evolution
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Editor: Garn, Stanley M. (1922-2007)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Pub Date: 1964
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Fair. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Previous owner’s name on upper edge ffep. Very light edge and corner wear. Dust Jacket: Fair. NOT price clipped. One approx. 1″ closed tear on upper front cover corner at spine head, one approx. 1/2″ closed tear on rear upper edge. Some wear to head and foot of spine.
Notes: Conference papers. “Perhaps the most rapid growth of pertinent information characterizes the nearly new area of ongoing evolution in living man….Increasingly we discover the very factors responsible for evolutionary change. By altering his way of life, man has put in motion numerous selective factors responsible for at least microevolutionary changes in particular local and geographical races. As we move from simply document human evolution (via the fossil record) to investigating the direction of human evolution, the overall importance of culture becomes more and more evident. Wile the capacity of culture made culture possible, the directions of culture have surely been the directions of human evolution.” (From the Introduction) Seems kind of tautological to me–evolution changes culture changes evolution. Culture = the learned way of life. How has culture “directed” evolutionary changes that further developed culture?
