Then we looked at what science may have to tell us about culture. Cultural Studies hitherto had not been able to show a certain rigor in training that is seen in the study of science. Some of the important contributions in science, particularly from biology, need to be incorporated in the study of culture. Knowledge of our evolutionary past tells us why we have certain deep structures and we common core. Therefore we found that propensities like predator avoidance, habitat selection, mate selection, coalition, parental investment and reciprocal altruism are part of us through our evolutionary lineage and these are still in us.
More research needs to be done in the interface between science, particularly biology, and the humanities because even though we have queried science, we also know said that science works . The findings from science may still be provisional, but we know science works better than any other domain as discipline of knowledge.
Through Richard Dawkins we found that the meme is the unit of cultural transmission or of imitation. The characteristics that these elementary cultural units should have to survive at all are longevity, fecundity and copying-fidelity. We saw culture also in terms of evolution, so we have cultural evolution on one hand and genetic evolution on the other.
