As the author points out, humanity is very simplistic. It is organized in two levels: Biotic and Cultural. The idea of society and culture as being the differing factor from other species was discarded after Garry Runciman. His argument is that cultural and societal selection is a series of sequential and mutually interacting processes that intersected between all organisms. An example of ‘game birds’ was given. Human classification of creatures as being ‘game birds’ is a cultural selected idea. After hunting these birds to the near point of extinction, various laws (social) were implicated for the protection of ‘game birds’ and these laws were then followed and broken. If the ‘game birds’ became extinct, then the environmental niches (natural) are then changed. This cycle seems to be in motion due to the fundamentals of human society: natural (biotic) and cultural (See Attached Figure
As the author points out, humanity is very simplistic. It is organized in two levels: Biotic and Cultural. The idea of society and culture as being the differing factor from other species was discarded after Garry Runciman. His argument is that cultural and societal selection is a series of sequential and mutually interacting processes that intersected between all organisms. An example of ‘game birds’ was given. Human classification of creatures as being ‘game birds’ is a cultural selected idea. After hunting these birds to the near point of extinction, various laws (social) were implicated for the protection of ‘game birds’ and these laws were then followed and broken. If the ‘game birds’ became extinct, then the environmental niches (natural) are then changed. This cycle seems to be in motion due to the fundamentals of human society: natural (biotic) and cultural (See Attached Figure