Interdisciplinary Thinking – Page 7

Gene-Culture Co-Evolution

Human Evolution Resources Gene-culture Co-evolution Biological evolution and cultural evolution are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they can influence each other. Genetically evolved human characteristics and abilities allowed for the accumulation and transmission of certain technologies, knowledge, behaviors, and environmental changes. These human-created conditions have in turn influenced our behavior, our body, our brain, […]

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Ethnography

Dustin Eirdosh

Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.

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Develop School-Based Community Science Labs

Dustin Eirdosh

Students can and should be involved in the science-informed processes of community-based cultural evolution within their own school. Because this can be a complex task, schools should have some form of Community Science Lab (CSL), a group of students that are supported in more systematic approaches to school improvement through educational design thinking.

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Scaffold and ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school

Dustin Eirdosh

Ensure literacy in evolutionary concepts prior to secondary school

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Three Mexican fisheries

Dustin Eirdosh

Students compare the stories of three Mexican fishing villages to understand the factors that enabled some villages to sustainably manage their fishing resources, while others failed.

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Honeybee Democracy

Dustin Eirdosh

Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups make decisions.

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