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Think of evolution, and you might think of Darwin's finches and natural selection. But according to researchers writing in the journal BioScience, it is not our genes that are determining our current ...

My last blog post mentioned the distinction between social learning, in which one learns from someone else, and individual learning, in which one learns from the non-social environment. However, ...

The trajectory of life on Earth has always been predicated by genetic evolution, but two scientists from the University of Maine argue that culture is now the main force shaping our lives. A new study ...

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