Gene-culture coevolutionary theory

被引:210
作者
Feldman, MW [1 ]
Laland, KN [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CAMBRIDGE, SUBDEPT ANIM BEHAV, CAMBRIDGE CB3 8AA, ENGLAND
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/0169-5347(96)10052-5
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Gene-culture coevolutionary theory is a branch of theoretical population genetics that models the transmission of genes and cultural traits from one generation to the next, exploring how they interact. These models have been employed to examine the adaptive advantages of learning and culture, to investigate the forces of cultural change, to partition the variance in complex human behavioral and personality traits, and to address specific cases in human evolution in which there is an interaction between genes and culture.
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页码:453 / 457
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