Food, “Culture,” and Sociality in Drosophila

Food, “Culture,” and Sociality in Drosophila

vored media (without quinine). In the critical test phase, demonstrators and observers were exposed separately to the two flavored media. Social transmission occurred if the oviposition choices of observers mirrored that of demonstrators. Using this methodology, Battesti et al. (2012) first showed that observer flies relied heavily on social information and acquired oviposition preferences from...

Network Analysis in sociality

Gene-culture coevolution and the nature of human sociality.

Human characteristics are the product of gene-culture coevolution, which is an evolutionary dynamic involving the interaction of genes and culture over long time periods. Gene-culture coevolution is a special case of niche construction. Gene-culture coevolution is responsible for human other-regarding preferences, a taste for fairness, the capacity to empathize and salience of morality and char...

Food and Culture

reexamined: Broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences, pp. 155-190. Acknowledgments. The authors are grateful to Hazel R. Markus and Adam B. Cohen for their extremely helpful comments and suggestions on a previous version of this chapter. The need to include cultural factors to explain behavior seems particularly obvious when it comes to food given an easily observed cu...

Food Safety Culture Paramount Than Traditional Food Safety System and Food Safety Culture in South African Food Industries

The fact that traditional food safety system in the absence of food safety culture is inadequate has recently become a cause of concern for food safety professionals and other stakeholders. Focusing on implementation of traditional food safety system i.e HACCP prerequisite program and HACCP without the presence of food safety culture in the food industry has led to the processing, marketing and...