Culture and Cognition

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fessler, Daniel M T ^a   Machery, Edouard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Canalized traits; Cognition; Culture; Generatively entrenched homology; Mental mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881072518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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