Gene-culture coevolutionary theory.
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چکیده
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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Trends in ecology & evolution
دوره 11 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996