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Does culture allow humans to adapt to a wide range of ecological habitats? Is culture responsible for why humans cooperate with genetically unrelated individuals? How do genes and culture affect each other\u2019s evolution?\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222018-10-10T10:59:00-07:00\u0022\u003E10\/10\/2018-10:59am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"Within the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, a cadre of scholars has united under the research group Adaptation, Behavior, Culture and Society, which is piecing together the diverse ways that humans and nonhuman primates cooperate and accumulate culture. ASU has become a leader in the world for researching culture from an evolutionary perspective and will play host to hundreds of researchers from a myriad of fields this month for the second annual Cultural Evolution Society global conference.","teaser":"Why and when did humans begin to rely on culturally transmitted information? 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