It has been suggested that cultural evolution may have replaced genetic evolution, and hence slowed the rate of adaptive evolution over the past 10,000 years.

Likewise, these three criteria in the context of genes are also necessary for genetic evolution.

It treats culture as a separate evolutionary system that acts in parallel to the usual genetic evolution to transform human traits.

This leads to the cultural evolution of highly adaptive behaviors and technology alongside genetic evolution.

Biologists expect a robust co-evolutionary trajectory linking human genetic evolution with the evolution of culture.