Steps to individuality in biology and culture
Steps to individuality in biology and culture
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2021.0407
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发表时间：
2023-03-13
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Michod, Richard E.
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作者：
Davison, Dinah R.;Michod, Richard E.
人类文化是通过个体的进化转变（ETI）而产生的吗？为了解决这个问题，我们研究了生物ETI的步骤，看看它们如何应用于人类文化的进化。具体来说，我们说明了ETI阶段使用一个很好的研究的例子，在volvocine藻类的多细胞性的演变。然后，我们考虑这些阶段如何适用于文化过渡，涉及文化传统的综合群体和创造和传播传统的古人类。我们主要集中在更新世早期，并研究人类食肉和文化的变化，从奥尔德沃阿舍利技术。我们用泛行为作为外群体比较。我们总结了重要的相似性和差异，我们发现ETI阶段之间的生物和文化领域。由于我们不是文化人类学家，我们可能会忽略或错误地理解与每一步相关联的过程。我们希望，通过清楚地描述这些个性化的步骤，并用文化原则和过程来说明它们，其他研究人员可以在我们最初的练习基础上进行研究。我们的分析支持这一假设，即人类文化经历了一个ETI开始与泛一样的祖先，继续在更新世，并在现代人类文化达到高潮。这篇文章是主题问题的一部分“人类社会文化进化的进化过渡光”。
Did human culture arise through an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI)? To address this question, we examine the steps of biological ETIs to see how they could apply to the evolution of human culture. For concreteness, we illustrate the ETI stages using a well-studied example, the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae. We then consider how those stages could apply to a cultural transition involving integrated groups of cultural traditions and the hominins that create and transmit traditions. We focus primarily on the early Pleistocene and examine hominin carnivory and the cultural change from Oldowan to Acheulean technology. We use Pan behaviour as an outgroup comparison. We summarize the important similarities and differences we find between ETI stages in the biological and cultural realms. As we are not cultural anthropologists, we may overlook or be mistaken in the processes we associate with each step. We hope that by clearly describing these steps to individuality and illustrating them with cultural principles and processes, other researchers may build upon our initial exercise. Our analysis supports the hypothesis that human culture has undergone an ETI beginning with a Pan-like ancestor, continuing during the Pleistocene, and culminating in modern human culture.This article is part of the theme issue 'Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'.