Culture Shapes Behavior, But What Shapes Culture? Monday's Editon

How culture originated

Stand at the edge of a rice paddy in southern China, Bengal, West Africa, or the Mekong Delta. The field is flooded it also connected. Irrigation channels connect it to neighboring paddies. If one farmer drains water at the wrong time, the surrounding crops fail. Planting and harvesting require coordinated labor across many families. Individual disputes…