Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tavory, Iddo ^a   Jablonka, Eva ^b   Ginsburg, Simona ^c  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Canalization; Cultural evolution; Epigenetic landscape; Plasticity; Waddington

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923463526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396430.013.0031     Document Type: Chapter

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