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Rendell, Luke, Laurel Fogarty, and Kevin N. Laland. "Runaway cultural niche construction." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 823–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0256.

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Cultural niche construction is a uniquely potent source of selection on human populations, and a major cause of recent human evolution. Previous theoretical analyses have not, however, explored the local effects of cultural niche construction. Here, we use spatially explicit coevolutionary models to investigate how cultural processes could drive selection on human genes by modifying local resources. We show that cultural learning, expressed in local niche construction, can trigger a process with dynamics that resemble runaway sexual selection. Under a broad range of conditions, cultural niche-

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Laland, Kevin N., and Michael J. O’Brien. "Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction." Biological Theory 6, no. 3 (2011): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0026-6.

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Borenstein, Elhanan, Jeremy Kendal, and Marcus Feldman. "Cultural niche construction in a metapopulation." Theoretical Population Biology 70, no. 1 (2006): 92–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2005.10.003.

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Laland, K. N., J. Odling-Smee, and M. W. Feldman. "Cultural niche construction and human evolution." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14, no. 1 (2001): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00262.x.

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Fogarty, Laurel, and Nicole Creanza. "The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1735 (2017): 20160428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0428.

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Niche construction is a process through which organisms alter their environments and, in doing so, influence or change the selective pressures to which they are subject. ‘Cultural niche construction’ refers specifically to the effect of cultural traits on the selective environments of other biological or cultural traits and may be especially important in human evolution. In addition, the relationship between population size and cultural accumulation has been the subject of extensive debate, in part because anthropological studies have demonstrated a significant association between population s

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Simonton, Dean Keith. "Human creativity, cultural evolution, and niche construction." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 1 (2000): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00382413.

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Laland, Kevin N., John Odling-Smee, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 1 (2000): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00002417.

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Odling-Smee, F. J. "Niche construction, genetic evolution and cultural change." Behavioural Processes 35, no. 1-3 (1995): 195–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0376-6357(95)00055-0.

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Kendal, Jeremy, Jamshid J. Tehrani, and John Odling-Smee. "Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 785–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0306.

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Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance , comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche construction, to genetic inheritance in evolution. Human niche construction modifies selection pressures in environments in ways that affect both human evolution, and the evolution of other species. Human ecological inheritance is exceptionally potent because it includes the social transmission and inheritance of cultural knowledge, and material c

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Smith, Bruce D. "A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication." Biological Theory 6, no. 3 (2011): 260–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0028-4.

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Shennan, Stephen. "Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 918–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0309.

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In contrast to other approaches, evolutionary perspectives on understanding the power and wealth inequalities in human societies view wealth and power not as ends in themselves but as proximate goals that contribute to the ultimate Darwinian goal of achieving reproductive success. The most successful means of achieving it in specific times and places depend on local conditions and these have changed in the course of human history, to such an extent that strategies focused on the maintenance and increase of wealth can even be more successful in reproductive terms than strategies directed at max

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Eriksson, Ove. "Species pools in cultural landscapes - niche construction, ecological opportunity and niche shifts." Ecography 36, no. 4 (2012): 403–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07913.x.

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Masataka, Nobuo. "Autism, its cultural modulation and niche construction in societies." Physics of Life Reviews 20 (March 2017): 122–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.01.027.

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Sinha, Chris. "Niche construction, too, unifies praxis and symbolization." Language and Cognition 5, no. 2-3 (2013): 261–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/langcog-2013-0019.

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AbstractArbib hypothesizes that evolutionary modern language significantly postdates human speciation. Why should this be so? I propose an account based on niche construction theory, in which Arbib's language-ready brain is primarily a consequence of epigenetically-driven adaptation to the biocultural niche of protolanguage and (subsequently) early language. The evolutionary adaptations grounding language evolution were initially to proto-linguistic socio-communicative and symbolic processes, later capturing and re-canalizing behavioural adaptations (such as serial and hierarchical constructiv

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Kendal, Jeremy R. "Cultural Niche Construction and Human Learning Environments: Investigating Sociocultural Perspectives." Biological Theory 6, no. 3 (2011): 241–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0038-2.

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Ihara, Yasuo, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Cultural niche construction and the evolution of small family size." Theoretical Population Biology 65, no. 1 (2004): 105–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2003.07.003.

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Creanza, Nicole, Laurel Fogarty, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Models of Cultural Niche Construction with Selection and Assortative Mating." PLoS ONE 7, no. 8 (2012): e42744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042744.

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Sterelny, Kim, and Trevor Watkins. "Neolithization in Southwest Asia in a Context of Niche Construction Theory." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25, no. 3 (2015): 673–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774314000675.

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The term ‘neolithization’ as it is generally used in relation to southwest Asia narrows the focus of research, and works against our efforts to envision explanations of the process in terms of the long-term evolution of human societies. Here, we re-frame the neolithization process, setting it within the framework of niche construction theory. We argue that the concept of cultural niche construction fits the purpose, but needs to be extended to encompass the more complex social worlds of the Holocene in the form of the cognitive-cultural niche.

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Jiang, Bin. "Urban Construction Based on the Phenomenon of the “Niche”." Applied Mechanics and Materials 209-211 (October 2012): 619–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.619.

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Every city has its own special “niche”. The inborn geological environment, local conditions and customs, building style, historical cultural traditions, esthetic tastes, and historical human culture have formed the basis for the special “niche” of a city. The basic principle in urban planning and construction is to find out the right “niche” of the city and make full use of the natural conditions and respect the historical unity and coherence in building the city.

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Saidel, Eric. "The compound interest effect: Why cultural evolution is not niche construction." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 1 (2000): 158–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00372417.

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Jeffares, Ben. "Thinking tools: Acquired skills, cultural niche construction, and thinking with things." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35, no. 4 (2012): 228–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x11002044.

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AbstractThe investigative strategy that Vaesen uses presumes that cognitive skills are to some extent hardwired; developmentally plastic traits would not provide the relevant comparative information. But recent views of cognition that stress external resources, and evolutionary accounts such as cultural niche construction, urge us to think carefully about the role of technology in shaping cognition.

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Creanza, N., and M. W. Feldman. "Complexity in models of cultural niche construction with selection and homophily." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, Supplement_3 (2014): 10830–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400824111.

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Nikolic, Aleksandra. "Collections and cultural transmission: Museum as a niche (re)construction site." Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique 67, no. 2 (2019): 393–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gei1902393n.

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Creanza, Nicole, Laurel Fogarty, and Marcus W. Feldman. "Cultural niche construction of repertoire size and learning strategies in songbirds." Evolutionary Ecology 30, no. 2 (2016): 285–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9796-1.

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Lipatov, Mikhail, Melissa J. Brown, and Marcus W. Feldman. "The influence of social niche on cultural niche construction: modelling changes in belief about marriage form in Taiwan." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 901–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0303.

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With introduction of social niche effects into a model of cultural change, the frequency of a practice cannot predict the frequency of its underlying belief. The combination of a general model with empirical data from a specific case illustrates the importance of collaboration between modellers and field researchers, and identifies the type of quantitative data necessary for analysing case studies. Demographic data from colonial-period household registers in Taiwan document a shift in marriage form within 40 years, from a mixture of uxorilocal marriages and virilocal marriages to the latter's

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Reid, Alastair. "Drug addiction finds its own niche." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34, no. 6 (2011): 321–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x11000781.

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AbstractThe evolutionary framework suggested by Müller & Schumann (M&S) can be extended further by considering drug-taking in terms of Niche Construction Theory (NCT). It is suggested here that genetic and environmental components of addiction are modified by cultural acceptance of the advantages of non-addicted drug taking and the legitimate supply of performance-enhancing drugs. This may then reduce the prevalence of addiction.

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Riede, Felix. "Adaptation and niche construction in human prehistory: a case study from the southern Scandinavian Late Glacial." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 793–808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0266.

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The niche construction model postulates that human bio-social evolution is composed of three inheritance domains, genetic, cultural and ecological, linked by feedback selection. This paper argues that many kinds of archaeological data can serve as proxies for human niche construction processes, and presents a method for investigating specific niche construction hypotheses. To illustrate this method, the repeated emergence of specialized reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus ) hunting/herding economies during the Late Palaeolithic ( ca 14.7–11.5 kyr BP) in southern Scandinavia is analysed from a niche c

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Whitford, Brent R. "Characterizing the cultural evolutionary process from eco-cultural niche models: niche construction during the Neolithic of the Struma River Valley (c. 6200–4900 BC)." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, no. 5 (2018): 2181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0667-x.

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Altman, Arie, and Alex Mesoudi. "Understanding Agriculture within the Frameworks of Cumulative Cultural Evolution, Gene-Culture Co-Evolution, and Cultural Niche Construction." Human Ecology 47, no. 4 (2019): 483–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-019-00090-y.

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Lansing, J. Stephen, and Karyn M. Fox. "Niche construction on Bali: the gods of the countryside." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1566 (2011): 927–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0308.

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Human niche construction encompasses both purely biological phenomena, such as the evolution of lactose tolerance, and dual inheritance theory, which investigates the transmission of cultural information. But does niche construction help to explain phenomena in which conscious intention also plays a role? The creation of the engineered landscape of Balinese rice terraces offers a test case. Population genetic analysis and archaeological evidence are used to investigate whether this phenomenon emerged historically from trial and error by generations of farmers, or alternatively was designed by

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Harkness, Sara, Charles M. Super, Mary A. Sutherland, et al. "Culture and the Construction of Habits in Daily Life: Implications for the Successful Development of Children with Disabilities." OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health 27, no. 1_suppl (2007): 33S—40S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15394492070270s105.

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The developmental niche, a theoretical construct for the study of the child in cultural context, has been usefully applied to the analysis of environments of disabled individuals. In this article, the authors review the three components of the niche (settings of daily life, customs of care, and the psychology of the caretakers), with particular reference to issues of disability. Two case studies are presented as illustrations of the importance of parents' culturally constructed ideas, or ethnotheories, as either challenges or supports to the work of the occupational therapist. The article conc

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FOGARTY, LAUREL, LUKE RENDELL, and KEVIN N. LALAND. "THE IMPORTANCE OF SPACE IN MODELS OF SOCIAL LEARNING, CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND NICHE CONSTRUCTION." Advances in Complex Systems 15, no. 01n02 (2012): 1150001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219525911003311.

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This article focusses on the importance of space in mathematical models of cultural evolution, cooperation, niche construction and social learning. We discuss the benefits of including spacial effects in these evolutionary models and illustrate how the inclusion of space has changed accepted and long-standing results. We also briefly discuss the spatial dynamics of these systems and suggest future directions for research investigating spatial evolution.

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Bulbulia, Joseph. "Meme Infection or Religious Niche Construction? An Adaptationist Alternative to The Cultural Maladaptationist Hypothesis." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 20, no. 1 (2008): 67–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006808x260241.

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AbstractThis paper develops an alternative to Dennett's meme-theoretic explanation for religious commitment. First I build an argument in defense of Dennett's position, drawing on a cultural evolution literature that he mentions but does not develop (Dennett 2006). Then I describe data that even this enhanced account leaves poorly explained. Next I draw on commitment signaling theory to produce an account that explains these puzzling data. I show how religious culture provides a pervasive example of human epistemic niche construction. An adaptationist analysis of religious culture exposes how

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Laland, Kevin N. "Exploring gene–culture interactions: insights from handedness, sexual selection and niche-construction case studies." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363, no. 1509 (2008): 3577–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0132.

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Genes and culture represent two streams of inheritance that for millions of years have flowed down the generations and interacted. Genetic propensities, expressed throughout development, influence what cultural organisms learn. Culturally transmitted information, expressed in behaviour and artefacts, spreads through populations, modifying selection acting back on populations. Drawing on three case studies, I will illustrate how this gene–culture coevolution has played a critical role in human evolution. These studies explore (i) the evolution of handedness, (ii) sexual selection with a cultura

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Whitford, Brent R. "Correction to: Characterizing the cultural evolutionary process from eco-cultural niche models: niche construction during the Neolithic of the Struma River Valley (c. 6200–4900 BC)." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, no. 7 (2019): 3649–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00836-1.

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Eriksson, Ove. "Historical and Current Niche Construction in an Anthropogenic Biome: Old Cultural Landscapes in Southern Scandinavia." Land 5, no. 4 (2016): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land5040042.

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Eriksson, Ove, Matilda Arnell, and Karl-Johan Lindholm. "Historical Ecology of Scandinavian Infield Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (2021): 817. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020817.

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Infield systems originated during the early Iron Age and existed until the 19th century, although passing many transitions and changes. The core features of infield systems were enclosed infields with hay-meadows and crop fields, and unenclosed outland mainly used for livestock grazing. We examine the transitions and changes of domesticated landscapes with infield systems using the framework of human niche construction, focusing on reciprocal causation affecting change in both culture and environment. A first major transition occurred during the early Middle Ages, as a combined effect of a gro

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McKey, Doyle B., Mélisse Durécu, Marc Pouilly, et al. "Present-day African analogue of a pre-European Amazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural niche construction." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 52 (2016): 14938–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613169114.

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Erickson [Erickson CL (2000)Nature408 (6809):190–193] interpreted features in seasonal floodplains in Bolivia’s Beni savannas as vestiges of pre-European earthen fish weirs, postulating that they supported a productive, sustainable fishery that warranted cooperation in the construction and maintenance of perennial structures. His inferences were bold, because no close ethnographic analogues were known. A similar present-day Zambian fishery, documented here, appears strikingly convergent. The Zambian fishery supports Erickson’s key inferences about the pre-European fishery: It allows sustained

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Vining, Benjamin R. "Cultural Niche Construction and Remote Sensing of Ancient Anthropogenic Environmental Change in the North Coast of Peru." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 25, no. 2 (2017): 559–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9346-y.

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Eriksson, Ove. "What is biological cultural heritage and why should we care about it? An example from Swedish rural landscapes and forests." Nature Conservation 28 (July 5, 2018): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.28.25067.

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There is currently a growing concern that biocultural heritage is threatened in many landscapes. This paper focuses on biological cultural heritage, broadly meaning biological cultural traces that are considered as heritage, but leaving out other aspects of the biocultural heritage concept. An operational definition of biological cultural heritage (BCH) is suggested, based on niche construction theory: “biological manifestations of culture, reflecting indirect or intentional effects, or domesticated landscapes, resulting from historical human niche construction”. Some factors that influence re

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Smith, Eric Alden. "Endless forms: human behavioural diversity and evolved universals." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1563 (2011): 325–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0233.

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Human populations have extraordinary capabilities for generating behavioural diversity without corresponding genetic diversity or change. These capabilities and their consequences can be grouped into three categories: strategic (or cognitive), ecological and cultural-evolutionary. Strategic aspects include: (i) a propensity to employ complex conditional strategies, some certainly genetically evolved but others owing to directed invention or to cultural evolution; (ii) situations in which fitness payoffs (or utilities) are frequency-dependent, so that there is no one best strategy; and (iii) th

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Quinlan, Robert J., Samuel Jilo Dira, Mark Caudell, and Marsha B. Quinlan. "Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia." Current Anthropology 57, no. 5 (2016): 632–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/688213.

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Bin, Wu. "The Construction Path of English Ecological Classroom under the Theory of Multiculturalism." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 5, no. 1 (2021): p45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v5n1p45.

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In the process of continuous development, expansion and integration of culture, the pattern of multi-culture will gradually form. Under the theory of multiculturalism, teachers should start from an international perspective and an overall perspective to build an English ecological classroom that is suitable for the healthy growth of students. Teachers should pay attention to correctly establish the subject of English class and rationally present cross-cultural education. Construct an ecological English teaching model and create a reasonable ecological niche for teachers and students. In this w

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Levitsky, Sandra. "Niche Activism: Constructing a Unified Movement Identity in a Heterogeneous Organizational Field." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 12, no. 3 (2007): 271–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/maiq.12.3.3v020m3751v1k642.

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This article draws on a study of interorganizational relations in the Chicago gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender movement to elaborate a theory for how activists integrate divergent organizational approaches to social reform into a coherent "movement identity." Departing from the resource mobilization and collective identity literatures, which tend to reduce organizational specialization either to a competition over resources or to ideological differences among movement participants, I argue that organizational interests and shared beliefs play interrelated, but nonreducible roles in the

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Kemp, Melissa E., Alexis M. Mychajliw, Jenna Wadman, and Amy Goldberg. "7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1927 (2020): 20200447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0447.

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The human-mediated movement of species across biogeographic boundaries—whether intentional or accidental—is dramatically reshaping the modern world. Yet humans have been reshaping ecosystems and translocating species for millennia, and acknowledging the deeper roots of these phenomena is important for contextualizing present-day biodiversity loss, ecosystem functioning and management needs. Here, we present the first database of terrestrial vertebrate species introductions spanning the entire anthropogenic history of a system: the Caribbean. We employ this approximately 7000-year dataset to as

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Kashima, Yoshihisa. "Cultural Dynamics for Sustainability: How Can Humanity Craft Cultures of Sustainability?" Current Directions in Psychological Science 29, no. 6 (2020): 538–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721420949516.

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Humanity faces twin problems of adaptation—natural environmental challenges of climate change and global humanitarian challenges of ensuring well-being for all—that pose a dilemma for sustainable development. One way forward is to develop cultures of sustainability that highlight and reward the ideas and practices that will help us transition to a sustainable lifestyle. Although institutional responses are necessary and multidisciplinary approaches are required, individual citizens can also participate in cultural dynamics—the process of cultural formation, maintenance, and transformation—to c

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Beissinger, Margaret H. "Occupation and Ethnicity: Constructing Identity among Professional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians in Romania." Slavic Review 60, no. 1 (2001): 24–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2697642.

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Based on fieldwork (primarily in southern Romania), this article treats identity-construction among professional male Romani musicians, investigating in particular the discourse that they generate as they maintain their exclusive vocational niche on the boundaries of intersecting ethnic communities. Seeking to establish the influence of Romani musicians as agents in the construction of their own identity, Beissinger discusses notions that Romani musicians provide of non-Roms and other Roms (including other musicians), as well as how they portray surrounding cultural and political phenomena as

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Groß, Daniel, Henny Piezonka, Erica Corradini, et al. "Adaptations and transformations of hunter-gatherers in forest environments: New archaeological and anthropological insights." Holocene 29, no. 10 (2019): 1531–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683619857231.

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Like any other living being, humans constantly influence their environment, be it intentionally or unintentionally. By extracting natural resources, they shape their environment and also that of plants and other animals. A great difference setting people apart from all other living beings is the ability to construct and develop their own niche intentionally, and the unique tool for this is cultural behaviour. Here, we discuss anthropogenic environmental changes of hunter-gatherers and present new palaeoecological and palynological data. The studies are framed with ethnoarchaeological data from

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Smith, Murray. "Film, Art, and the Third Culture." Projections 12, no. 2 (2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/proj.2018.120202.

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In this overview of my recent book, I outline its main themes, questions, and arguments. Part 1 explores the applicability of philosophical naturalism to aesthetics and the arts. Searching for the principles that might undergird a naturalistic or “third cultural” approach to the arts, I defend a model of “triangulation” that seeks consilience among phenomenological, psychological, and neurophysiological evidence and that relates to two further strategies: “thick explanation,” combining personal and “subpersonal” levels of analysis, and “theory construction,” conceived as an empirically oriente

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Dickins, Thomas E., and Qazi Rahman. "The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1740 (2012): 2913–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0273.

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In recent years, a number of researchers have advocated extending the modern synthesis in evolutionary biology. One of the core arguments made in favour of an extension comes from work on soft inheritance systems, including transgenerational epigenetic effects, cultural transmission and niche construction. In this study, we outline this claim and then take issue with it. We argue that the focus on soft inheritance has led to a conflation of proximate and ultimate causation, which has in turn obscured key questions about biological organization and calibration across the life span to maximize a

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