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Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus.

Jeremy Kendal1, Jamshid J Tehrani, John Odling-Smee

  • 1Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. jeremy.kendal@durham.ac.uk

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Niche construction, an evolutionary process, modifies environments and selection pressures through ecological inheritance. This human-driven process, including cultural inheritance, impacts gene-culture coevolution and integrates biological and social sciences.

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Human Evolution
  • Cultural Evolution

Background:

  • Niche construction is an endogenous evolutionary process.
  • It is reciprocal to natural selection.
  • It involves ecological inheritance, modifying selection pressures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elaborate on niche construction processes.
  • To explain its role in human evolution and gene-culture coevolution.
  • To integrate biological and social sciences through niche construction theory.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual elaboration of niche construction theory.
  • Discussion of ecological and genetic inheritance.
  • Integration of cultural inheritance and gene-culture dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Niche construction adds ecological inheritance to genetic inheritance in evolution.
  • Human niche construction significantly affects human and other species' evolution.
  • Human cultural inheritance, including knowledge and material culture, is exceptionally potent.

Conclusions:

  • Niche construction theory offers a framework for gene-culture coevolution.
  • It provides a basis for understanding multivariate dynamics in cultural evolution.
  • The theory integrates biological and social aspects of human sciences.