“…Evolutionary ecology regards culture as a central feature of humans' adaptive niche, constituting the material, sociobehavioral, and cognitive-affective spaces they inhabit (Boyd, Richerson, and Henrich, 2011;Gendron, Mesquita, and Barrett, 2020). Extensive literature documents how, in any culture, absolute dependency of the young to survive and become competent members of the community is met in the developmental niche (Harkness and Super, 1994;Harkness et al, 2020). Children grow up not in the society writ large but in a socially constructed developmental niche made up of settings and actors animated by cultural models and scripts about development and its target outcomes, and in which they are active agents as well (Flynn et al, 2013;Narvaez et al, 2016).…”