PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Physical Attractiveness, Eastern Bloc, High Fidelity
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Standards of politeness, as well as many other cultural norms, have changed over generations: cultures are not monolithic and frozen entities but are fluid and constantly evolving as new ideas emerge and conditions change. Ecological & geographical variation late pleistocene era (about20,000 years ago), human settlement was more diverse when it came to physical environment than any other species those diff environments affect the ways ppl live and some of them are direct: There are no large indigenous mammals in hawaii, and native hawaiians do not have any hunting traditions. This contrasts sharply with the !kung of the kalahari who live in an environment surrounded by large animals and who derive much of their caloric intake by hunting them. The type of food availability affects the behavior the ppl engage in: others can be indirect effects: Different foraging behaviors can also come to affect how the societies are structured and the values that people come to adopt.
