Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define
a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the …

While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

Niche construction refers to the modification of selective environments by organisms.
Theoretical and empirical studies of niche construction are increasing in importance as foci …

In evolutionary biology, niche construction is sometimes described as a genuine
evolutionary process whereby organisms, through their activities and regulatory …

Evolutionary science has led to many practical applications of genetic evolution but few
practical uses of cultural evolution. This is because the entire study of evolution was gene …

Culture suffuses all aspects of human life. It shapes our minds and bodies and has provided
a cumulative inheritance of knowledge, skills, institutions, and artifacts that allows us to truly …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

Seeing bodies and evolutionary histories as quantifiable features that can be measured
separately from the human cultural experience is an erroneous approach. Seeing cultural …

Resilience and adaptation in the face of early genetic or environmental risk has become a
major interest in child psychiatry over recent years. However, we still remain far from an …

Abstract Niche Construction Theory (NCT) provides a powerful conceptual framework for
understanding how and why humans and target species entered into domesticatory …