Abstract

PEREZ MANRIQUE, Tiberio et al. Relations between behavior and cultural evolution - niche construction. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2010, vol.4, n.2, pp.57-68. ISSN 1900-2386.

The sciences of the behavior include different disciplines such as biology, anthropology, economy, psychology and political science. However, to deal with their problems, each one of them will appeal to a different theoretical model, some of which are incompatible between them. To remedy this state of things is an urgent need in the sciences of the behavior, if we want to have a scientifically more productive relationship. Currently, the conceptual and empirical developments represent an opportunity to be redefined the problem in the conceptual way, having as a reference framework the theory of evolution, as applicable explicatory logic to behavior. Such reconceptualization is related to the role that behavior has in the biological evolution and in the cultural evolution, which will be the object of analysis herein. It will be discussed what theoretical and empirical implications has the behavior in the construction of the niche. It can be concluded, pointing to the importance of the behavior, highlighting as its variability functional to serve a system damping for the survival of the organisms and in the same way in an influential factor in the evolution of species.

Keywords : niche; phenotype; evolution; behavior; system; inheritance.

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