New thinking, innateness and inherited representation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1599, 2012, Pages 2234-2244

  Shea, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive evolution; Cultural inheritance; Evolutionary psychology; Genetic information; Inherited representation; Innateness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL TRADITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84863473534     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0125     Document Type: Review

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