Jean-Baptiste André
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Jean-Baptiste André
@jbaptistandre.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist studying human behavior and societies through adaptationist reasoning. DR CNRS @ Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL & Institut Jean Nicod.

Psychology 21%
Sociology 19%
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Last year, Nicolas Baumard and I published a target article in EHB, where we propose that cultural phenomena emerge from feedbacks between evolved psychology and ecological legacies, the same mechanisms at work in any ecosystem:

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The ecological approach to culture
The prevailing view in the literature treats cultural dynamics as fundamentally distinct from other ecological processes—governed by a second system o…
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