In the YouTube video Culture-Gene Interactions: Peter Richerson-Culture-led Gene-culture Coevolution by University of California UUCTV), at 3 minutes the speaker Richerson puts up the slide that says that culture is a form of inheritance and that culture evolves in a Darwinian fashion by descent with modification. He argues that culture can evolve more rapidly than gene pools. Turns out that domestication is actually a good thing, despite Nietzsche's protests that it is "bad" to be a domesticated human animal. But what is wrong with domestication, who wants an undomesticated dog that tears up your furniture, takes a crap in your shoes every morning after peeing on the carpet and attacks every person it comes into contact with causing you legal hassles from the injuries your dog causes. The fact is that without what Haidt calls our hive instincts we would not have been able to form human tribes and flourish into societies and cities and countries, etc. If everyone were selfishly struggling for dominance in the social hierarchy without cooperation and cohesion, we would have just killed each other off and gone extinct as a species! This explains why Mormonism is a positive force of cultural ideas and customs, as it produces nicer people, more civilized people. See my post: Evidence that Mormon's are "Nicer" i.e. More "Christian" than Others. Here are two of the slides summarizing the theory that culture and genes coevolved:
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