Culture Quote by Gregory Bateson

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the…

— Gregory Bateson

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance of acquired…

— Anonymous

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted…

— Ruth Benedict

“DNA also reveals behavior. Culture can become embedded in our cells just as it gets buried in the floors of caves, bogs, and dwellings.”

— Adam Rutherford

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

— Steven Pinker

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of…

— Jerry Sabloff

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with…

— Helen Fisher

The nature of culture is evolution. The practice of culture is adaptation.

— Kelvin Chau

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

— Thomas Carlyle