Humanity is transitioning into a collective "superorganism,” experts say.
Culture has officially overtaken genetics as the dominant driver of our evolution.
For billions of years, the slow process of natural selection dictated survival, passing advantageous genes down through generations. However, researchers Timothy Waring and Zachary Wood from the University of Maine argue that humanity has entered a historic shift where culture, rather than genetics, is our primary tool for adaptation.
When faced with challenges like disease or vision loss, we no longer wait millennia for genetic mutations; instead, we rapidly invent vaccines and eyeglasses. This rapid transmission of knowledge and technology allows ideas to reshape human survival in a matter of months, essentially bypassing biological evolution entirely.
This profound shift is organizing humanity into a collective "superorganism," closely mirroring the complex social cooperation seen in ant colonies. Our survival now hinges on massive, interconnected networks of institutions, supply chains, and technologies that no individual fully understands, yet collectively protect us. But this superpower has a dark side. The same cooperative structures designed for resource extraction and competition are now driving existential threats like climate change. Ultimately, our future may no longer depend on the biology in our DNA, but on whether we can adapt our global institutions to solve the very problems our collective success created.
source: Waring, T. M., & Wood, Z. T. (2025). Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution. BioScience, 75(10), 803–819.
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