Do you think that there is microevolution between cultures?
Or, that we used to have cousins to our human line? (read that somewhere in National Geographic)
Only serious answers, please!.
2006-06-08 06:42:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Yes. There is microevolution between cultures, this is why we can guess by looking at some folks what region their ancestors hail from. Hair texture, height, skin color, body shape are all shaped not only by the conditions of the region in which a culture resides but also by the preferences of that culture, i.e., their definition of beauty.
I'm not sure what you mean by cousins. But there were different human species, though some argue how human they were. Our closest living relatives now are chimpanzees and bonobos. They are closer to us than they are to any other primate and there has been some debate about officially moving them onto the same branch on our "family tree". I personally don't know how anybody can look at a bonobo and not completely rethink what it means to be human.
2006-06-08 08:30:24 · answer #1 · answered by kaplah 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No quick answer to micro-evolution.
Cousins? You must have read about neanderthals, once believed to be a step in homo sapiens evolution line but now known to be a different branch. Both would share australopitecidae (therefore both hominids) but later separated. Most likely Homo erectus left Africa and settled in Europe long before Homo Sapiens left Africa and wiped out neanderthals from earth.
2006-06-08 17:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by Fromafar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres something recently that was published in nature or science....in regards to what you may be thinking of as "cousins"... like when our more recent ancestors could mate with chimps consequently some sterile and some fertile were produced...im pretty sure Dr. Rumbaugh said something about it..the authors suggested that alot of intraspecies breeding was going on to be where we are now...the found came about through studies within the h. genome project..there was a blurb in the economist as well...(lol)
2006-06-08 17:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by teenagegluesniffer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeap, thats trow, there is microevolution between cultures as it is between subcultures, reed E. Durkheim books-about subcultures or Sutherland-with his diferential associations theory-some book about subcultures in chicaco; and you will realize what i mean.
Hope i answerd so you can understand my point.
take care
2006-06-08 13:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by bianca_gr1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋