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11 years ago
I NEED HELP WITH THIS FORUM FOR MY ANTHROPOLGY CLASS MUST BE AT LEAST 200 WORDS... HELP PLEASE... THANKS  Frowning Face


Question: How is cultural change analogous to biological evolution? What important limitations are there to this analogy? In order to fully answer this question, consider issues of cultural innovation and cultural evolution.

Objectives examined:
* Examine the differences between cultural innovation and cultural diffusion
* Differentiate the theories of cultural evolution
* Develop a theory on the interplay between biology and culture in human development
* Appraise different cultures, at different levels of development, which are now undergoing the process of combining their traditional ways of life with changes imposed on them by the modern world
Source  Park, Chapter 13: Culture Change: Theories and Processes, p.327-342
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11 years ago
Use the attachment to help write your 200 word report:

Our closest biological relatives, the monkeys and the apes, not only learn a wide variety of behaviors on their own, they also learn from each other. Some of their learned responses are as basic as those involved in maternal care; others are as frivolous as the taste for candy. Frans de Waal reviewed seven long-term studies of chimpanzees and identified at least 39 behaviors that were clearly learned from others. If shared and socially learned, these behaviors could be described as cultural.
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