Cultural evolution is chiefly about harnessing the purps, and not so much the quirks.

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They are the bounty of our own cultural evolution, the closest human designers can come to natural selection.

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Language and music are results of cultural evolution harnessing auditory inputs from our natural environments environments that included the sounds other early humans made.

FORBES: How Language and Music Made Us Human

This history shows the depth and complexity of the role of English in the political and cultural evolution of the societies to which it spread.

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The authors say cultural evolution, not the brain, drives language development.

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This is the cultural backdrop to the latest evolution of ForbesLife, reconceived and redesigned to investigate, define and, yes, celebrate this Era of Connoisseurship.

FORBES: Curtain Up

Since it is Mr Mohajerani's ministry which gives out permits for all cultural activities, the consequences of the evolution in official ideas has been considerable.

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