Cultural evolution (lesson plan)
Students explore the concept of cultural evolution by comparing it to genetic evolution based on a number of concepts, and explore why cultural evolution is so important in our species.
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Reading text: Cumulative culture
A reading text about the importance of cumulative culture in our everyday experience and in the evolution of our species
- Teaching material type Reading text
- Subject Areas History, Human Evolution
- Learning Goals Evolutionary Thinking
- Suitable Grade Levels 6-8, 9-12
- Concepts Cultural evolution, Cumulative culture, Learning, Teaching
Author: Susan Hanisch
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike [CC BY-NC-SA]
