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Cultural evolution is much faster than genetic evolution, for reasons that will be explained later. This has given humans an enormous advantage over other animals in terms of adaptability. The human capacity for culture is based on our genes. You may call it a metaadaptation because this trait is an ability to adapt rather than an adaptation in itself. In this way, you may say that genetic evolution has created its own replacement. (This is called vicarious selection, see p. 74.)
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Fog, A. (1999). Fundamental Model for Cultural Selection. In: Cultural Selection. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9251-2_3
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