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Selection: Units, modes, and levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Richard Pocklington
Richard Pocklington
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305-2145 richardl@leland.stanford.edu www.stanford.edu/~richardl
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Abstract

Niche construction theory inherits flaws from previous gene-culture coevolutionary theories. Units of cultural transmission have not yet been defined. Vertical transmission is not necessarily an overwhelmingly important part of culture. The assumption that human genetic interests and human cultural interests are in synch is a form of naive group selection.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 156 - 157
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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