Genes, Mind, And Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (25th Anniversary Edition)

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface to the New Edition of Genes, Mind, and Culture......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
FRONT ESSAY: The Next Synthesis: 25 Years of Genes, Mind, and Culture - Charles Lumsden......Page 16
Past......Page 18
Present......Page 29
Future......Page 44
Mind......Page 54
Consilience......Page 55
Bibliography......Page 58
Preface to the First Edition......Page 66
1. Introduction......Page 70
Summary......Page 94
Appendix 1-1 The Definition of Culturgen......Page 95
Appendix 1-2 Waiting Time for Departure from Tabula Rasa......Page 100
2. The Primary Epigenetic Rules......Page 104
Taste and Smell......Page 107
Color Classification......Page 112
Hearing......Page 118
Summary......Page 121
3. The Secondary Epigenetic Rules......Page 122
Elements of Human Information Processing......Page 127
General Properties of Secondary Epigenetic Rules......Page 133
Facial Recognition......Page 140
Visual Pattern Complexity......Page 141
Nonverbal Communication......Page 144
Mother-Infant Bonding......Page 148
Fears and Phobias......Page 151
Incest Avoidance......Page 154
Epigenetic Rules of Valuation and Decision Making......Page 155
Other Epigenetic Rules......Page 161
The Reification Learning Rules......Page 162
Summary......Page 164
Appendix 3-1 The Measurement of Selectivity in Epigenetic Rules......Page 166
4. Gene-Culture Translation......Page 168
Socialization and the Propagation of Culturgens......Page 169
Individual Decision Making......Page 179
The Cognitive and Ethnographic Pictures......Page 184
The Translation Process......Page 186
The Structure of Ethnographic Curves......Page 193
Human Assimilation Functions......Page 200
Brother-Sister Incest Avoidance......Page 216
Fission in Yanomamo Villages......Page 227
Fashion in Women's Dress......Page 238
Can Culture Have a Life of Its Own?......Page 245
Summary......Page 248
Appendix 4-1 Cognitive Dynamics and Algorithmic Languages......Page 251
Appendix 4-2 Deriving the Motion Equation of Culturgens......Page 255
Appendix 4-3 An M-Culturgen Model......Page 258
Appendix 4 -4 The Stationary Solution......Page 259
5. The Gene-Culture Adaptive Landscape......Page 261
The Genetics of Populations......Page 265
The Existence of the Coevolutionary Landscape......Page 269
Heterogeneous Environments......Page 277
The Role of History......Page 291
The Role of Phenotypic Variation......Page 295
Summary......Page 299
Appendix 5 -1 Environmental History and the Fate of Dominant / Recessive Alleles......Page 301
Appendix 5-2 Environmental History and the Fate of Alleles with Heterozygote Superiority......Page 304
6. The Coevolutionary Circuit......Page 306
Epigenesis......Page 307
The Ontogeny of Mind......Page 313
Cognition and Genetic Fitness......Page 317
Previous Studies on Coevolution......Page 325
Modeling the Coevolutionary Circuit......Page 333
The Model Life Cycle......Page 335
Multiple Culturgens and Innovation......Page 341
The Gene-Culture Translation......Page 343
The Reward Structure......Page 349
The Fertility Map......Page 352
The General Coevolutionary Equations......Page 354
Specification of the Parameters......Page 355
Conclusions from the Model......Page 358
The Significance of Coevolutionary Models......Page 369
Summary......Page 372
7. The Biogeography of the Mind......Page 374
Cultures as the Biotas of Archipelagoes......Page 375
Culturgen Packing......Page 383
Why Is Euculture So Rare?......Page 394
Is Culture Necessary for Civilization?......Page 400
Summary......Page 410
Epigenesis......Page 412
Learning......Page 413
Complexity......Page 414
The Network of Causation......Page 415
Gene-Culture Theory and the Social Sciences......Page 419
The Explanation of History......Page 423
Glossary......Page 434
Bibliography......Page 454
Index......Page 486
Back Cover......Page 498