Biological culture and cultural biology

[Pythagorean]

TL;DR Summary

It's difficult to find research about how culture influences biology or biology influences culture, those keywords are saturated with nature vs. nurture discussions

Curious if there's a good keyword or named discipline for these kinds of questions:

To what extent does biology determine culture? For example, if you took two cultures, one raised by the sea and another in the mountains, then rewound and switched places, how much would their culture simply swap vs. how much would stay the same vs. how much would new cultural paradigms arise?

Can we separate happenstance cultural paradigms from those that have tendencies to arise from particular environments or genetic lines?

 

[BillTre]

I would start with the history of biology. Its full of interactions between biological thought and the culture things were embedded in.
Darwin in a religious environment would be a good example.

I think there is a sociological branch of history of science. That might be useful.

 

[pinball1970]

Specifically on mountainous verses sea fairing people I would check this out.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599997/

Also, sickle cell and malaria and the back drop to Jenner’s work.

 

[Rive]

To what extent does biology determine culture?

Interesting thought, but I can't recall anything for this direction.

On the other hand, for the reverse thought that culture might have a shot in biology - well, I seem to recall a case about crowd-tolerance genes and the rise of cities... Also, the lactose-tolerance story...

Though it's a bit of a chicken or the egg kind of question that what came first