When the "satisficing" is the new "fittest": how a proscriptive definition of adaptation can change our view of cognition and culture.
Adaptationism
Cumulative culture
Embodied cognition
Neo-Darwinism
Neutral theory of evolution
Journal
Die Naturwissenschaften
ISSN: 1432-1904
Titre abrégé: Naturwissenschaften
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0400767
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022
Historique:
received:
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07
2022
accepted:
08
08
2022
revised:
05
08
2022
entrez:
12
8
2022
pubmed:
13
8
2022
medline:
17
8
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Since Darwin's theory of evolution, adaptationism is frequently invoked to explain cognition and cultural processes. Adaptationism can be described as a prescriptive view, as phenotypes that do not optimize fitness should not be selected by natural selection. From an epistemological perspective, the principle of a prescriptive definition of adaptation seems incompatible with recent advances in epigenetics, evolutionary developmental biology, ethology, and genomics. From these challenges, a proscriptive view of adaptation has emerged, postulating that phenotypes that are not deleterious will be evolutionary maintained. In this epistemological investigation, we examine how the shift from adaptationism to a proscriptive view changes our view of cognition and culture. We argue that, while adaptationism leads to cognitivism and a view of culture as strategies to optimize overall fitness, the proscriptive definition favors embodied theories of cognition and a view of culture as the cumulative diffusion of behaviors allowed by the constraints of reproduction.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35960360
doi: 10.1007/s00114-022-01814-9
pii: 10.1007/s00114-022-01814-9
pmc: PMC9372954
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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