Cultural creativity and evolutionary flexibility

Abstract

This article develops the philosophical idea that the cultural creativity and the evolution of the human being are both dependent on evolutionary flexibility. This thesis will be defended in three steps: starting with a short phenomenological analysis of the possibilities of the human being and its body (1), I will then examine theories and explanations of evolutionary flexibility (2) and finally I will explore how this contains the possibilities for cultural creativity and evolution (3). Both evolutionary developed features of the human being and its interactions with the environment are considered. The conclusion will be that the diversity and evolution of human culture awakens the dormant potential of this flexibility.