Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain human behavior as a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution. Genes and culture (DIT suggests) continually interact in a feedback loop: changes in genes can lead to changes in culture which can then influence genetic selection, and vice versa.
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain human behavior as a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution. Genes and culture (DIT suggests) continually interact in a feedback loop: changes in genes can lead to changes in culture which can then influence genetic selection, and vice versa.
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