Arthropods in culture astrological signs of the zodiac. Culture consists of the social behaviour and norms found in human societies and transmitted through social learning. Cultural universals in all human societies include expressive forms like art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies like tool usage, cooking, shelter, and clothing. The concept of material culture covers physical expressions such as technology, architecture and art, whereas immaterial culture includes principles of social organization, mythology, philosophy, literature, and science. This article describes the roles played by arthropods in human culture. The arthropods are a phylum of animals with jointed legs; they include the insects, arachnids such
Diania as the armoured Lobopodia. These have long been assumed to be related in some way to Arthropoda and it seems likely that arthropods evolved from somewhere within this group. However, all previously discovered lobopodians showed soft, rather ring-like, but not segmented legs. The significance of "Diania" is that it is a lobopodian which appears to have evolved the name-giving character of the arthropods: jointed legs. In the original description of the fossil the authors suggested that "Diania" could be the sister group of "Schinderhannes" and the remaining arthropods, but discussed the possibility that it may be a more primitive form