Evidence of cultural group selection in territorial lobstering in Maine
| Autor: | James M. Acheson, Timothy M. Waring |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science Geography Planning and Development Cultural evolution 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Territoriality 01 natural sciences Fisheries management Development economics Ethnography 14. Life underwater Sociology Economic geography Sociocultural evolution Social organization Selection (genetic algorithm) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Sustainable development Global and Planetary Change Special Feature: Original Article Cultural group selection Ecology 010601 ecology Dilemma Cooperation Lobster |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Science |
| ISSN: | 1862-4057 1862-4065 |
| Popis: | Relatively little is known about how resource conservation practices and institutions emerge. We examine the historical emergence of territoriality and conservation rules in Maine’s lobstering industry, using a cultural evolutionary perspective. Cultural evolution suggests that cultural adaptations such as practices and institutions arise as a result of evolutionary selection pressure. The cultural multilevel selection framework of Waring et al. (Ecol Soc, 2015) further proposes that group cultural adaptations tend to emerge at a level of social organization corresponding to the underlying dilemma. Drawing on detailed history and ethnography, we conduct a retrospective assessment to determine which levels of social organization experienced selection pressures that might explain the emergence of lobstering territoriality and conservation practices we observe in history. The evidence strongly suggests that informal territoriality evolved by selection on harbor gang behavior, while some conservation practices spread via selection at other levels from individuals to regional lobstering zones. We identify two apparent historical shifts in the dominant level of selection for these practices over the history of the industry and discuss the implications of this trajectory for the evolution of lobster management in the Gulf of Maine. |
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