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Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission
- Abstract:
- The explosion of scientific results about epigenetic and other parental effects appears bewilderingly diverse. An important distinction helps to bring order to the data. Firstly, parents can detect adaptively-relevant information and transmit it to their offspring who rely on it to set a plastic phenotype adaptively. Secondly, adaptively-relevant information may be generated by a process of selection on a reliably transmitted parental effect. The distinction is particularly valuable in revealing two quite different ways in which human cultural transmission may operate.
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+ Sterelny, K
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+ Joyce, R
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+ Calcott, B
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+ Fraser, B
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- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Host title:
- Cooperation and Its Evolution
- Series:
- Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
- Publication date:
- 2013-02-22
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- 2013
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- © 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from MIT Press at: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cooperation-and-its-evolution
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