title: Cultural adaptation to environmental change versus stability.
abstract: The target article provides an intermediate account of culture and freedom that is conceived to be curvilinear by treating economic development not as an adaptive outcome in response to climate but as a cause of culture parallel to climate. We argue that the extent of environmental variability, including climatic variability, affects cultural adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. leichang@cuhk.edu.hk http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/eps/people/changl.html.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Bin-Bin
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hui Jing
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D017753:Ecosystem; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors