Cultural Organisms

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Exploration of different forms of material and social culture in humans and non-human animals. Examination of the psychological processes underlying innovation, cultural norms, ethnic markers, cultural taboos, cultural stereotypes, culture shock, etc. The evolutionary implications of culture, including cumulative cultural evolution, cultural group selection, niche construction, biology-culture coevolution as a dual inheritance system, and the concept of memes.