Why We’re Evolutionarily Wired For Culture
Yo-Yo Ma writes: ‘As humans, we naturally need food, water and shelter to survive. But equally important is understanding. To survive, we need to understand our environment, each other and ourselves. We invented culture to meet this need: we found a short-hand to take the essential values a society holds, and collapse them into coded narrative, sound, and symbols that mean something to all of us.”
