PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Norbert Elias, Socalled, Nepotism
Document Summary
Living close to animals led many diseases that originated in animal species (measles, tuberculosis, smallpox, influenza) to cross over and infect humans as well over centuries the people in eurasia developed resistances to them. Despite the fact that these different counties were in close physical proximity and that the vast majority of the students were not directly involved in f arming themselves, there were pronounced cultural differences in the ways of thinking. This is known as transmitted culture: unlike evoked culture, transmitted culture can travel with people when they move to new environments. Parallels between biological and cultural evolution: biological evolution occurs when certain genes become more common in populations than they were in the past. One difference is that genes are copied very faithfully from one generation to the next, with copying errors (mutations) being very rare and emerging randomly, by chance.
