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Phenogenotypes break up under countervailing evolutionary pressures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Robert Aunger
Affiliation:
King's College, University of Cambridge, CAMBS CB2 1ST, Englandrva20@cam.ac.uk

Abstract

The phenogenotype, a routinely co-occuring combination of a cultural and genetic trait, is unlikely to survive over time because of the potentially varying evolutionary pressures upon cultural as opposed to genetic traits. This is because the production and evaluation of cultural inputs will themselves be based on information previously acquired culturally. As a result, treating both cultural and genetic inheritance in a single recursion may be problematic.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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