On March 1, 2010, the New York Times has published an interesting article about the role of culture as a force at play in natural selection. The author, Nicholas Wade, reviews and summarizes thoughts and ideas that have emerged recently (but were floating around since several years) about the strong link that may exist between human evolution (in a Darwinian meaning) and human culture.

For those interested by this topic (as I am), here is the address of the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02evo.html. For more information, hereafter are some links towards some of the leaders of this movement that tends to bring together cultural and natural evolution:

• Professor Kevin Laland, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
• Professor Robert Boyd, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Professor Peter Richerson, University of California, Davis.
• Professor Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.