CULTURAL EVOLUTION: Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do? [Seed]
Cutting the competition: However Christopher Wilson, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, has a different idea. In a recent paper in Evolution and Human Behavior he suggests that male-genital mutilations are actually intended to prevent younger men from fathering children with older men’s wives. [Economist]
Philadelphia Set to Honor Darwin and Evolution: In the long-running culture war between evolution and creationism, Philadelphia is firing the latest shot. Nine academic, scientific and cultural institutions around the city are holding a Year of Evolution, a series of exhibitions, seminars and lectures to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin next February, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, “The Origin of Species.” [NYT]
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