ABSTRACT
Culture is the product of interacting human minds, and hence a science of culture will be a science of the most complex phenomenon on Earth. The engine was the invention and propagation of animal husbandry and dairying practices, all part of the agricultural revolution, which, of course, was one of the most significant achievements of human culture in human history. Culture is what happens in people's minds when they interact in certain ways with other minds and with the artefacts that are often central to those interactions. Culture is the pre-eminent example of both niche-construction and extra-genetic transmission of information. The child-development literature in psychology contains more and more reports and reviews from developmentalists who are coming to the view that a whole host of psychological traits, including cognitive capacities, display a high degree of developmental invariance and are subject to the argument of the poverty of the stimulus.
