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- A comprehensive understanding of human sociality requires examining the coevolution of genes and culture, highlighting the interaction between sociology and ecology.
- Recent biological research focuses on niche construction, leading to the development of concepts like social niche and ethodiversity, which can be used together to deepen our understanding of social evolution.
- The authors propose an inclusive biosociological framework that enhances our knowledge of social niche construction and non-human sociotypes while enriching our understanding of social behaviors through ethodiversity.
Article Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of human sociality needs to embrace the coevolution of genes and culture. Recent advances in biological research about niche construction by organisms, and the development of the concepts of social niche and ethodiversity, can be integrated into a common approach to understand this coevolution, which implies the interaction between sociology and ecology in an integrative framework of knowledge. In this paper the authors propose such inclusive biosociological and heuristic framework to improve the understanding of the evolution of social niche construction. In addition, it allows a better understanding of the concept of sociotype in non-human organisms and explains some aspects of the social or presocial behavior through the concept of ethodiversity.
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