The evolution of culture is like a story. In this chapter, the writer guides us to go through the history of human culture. From a lonely planet to ice and fire, then to creative spark and extermination, to villages and agriculture and finally up to now: large scale civilizations. During this long period of culture development, many things have been created, for example, bureaucratic organization, money and markets, universalistic norms and democratic association. According to the writer, evolution is essential and he raises five crucial points about evolution:
1.Evolution is unavoidable
2.Evolution does not look ahead
3.Evolution is path dependent
4.Evolution uses many replicators
5.Evolution evolves.
These five points not only help us have a better understanding of evolution, but also help us to anticipate the future of culture. The evolution of culture is happening all around. Although evolution itself does not look ahead, we humans can. Therefore, we are responsible to prepare a sustainable world for our next generations and motivate preservation. Besides, cultural evolution is becoming more varied as societies become more complex internally. Finally, the main message that the writer want to bring out is that "you are a integral part of human evolution, the future is ours to create, and you can make a contribution". I totally agree with the writer. Whatever we are doing, good or bad things, we are making changes to the evolution of our culture and creating our future. Therefore we human should be responsible for what we are doing.
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