Episode
Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds
COMPLEXITY · Mar 12, 2020 · 1 h 06 min
One feature common to nonlinear phenomena is how they challenge intuitions. Maybe nowhere is this more apparent than in studying the evolutionary process, and organisms in which not just genes but learned behaviors reproduce themselves provide a fountain of reliable surprises. Teasing out the intricate dynamics of gene-culture co-evolution is no easy feat. The dance of language, tools, and…