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Promissory notes, genetic clocks, and epigenetic outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Affiliation:
MRC Cognitive Development Unit and University College, London WCIH OBT, Englandannette@edu.ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

I respond to three continuing commentaries on Beyond modularity, two concerning the representational redescription (RR) framework and its attempts to account for the growing flexibility of human intelligence, and one relating to the putative mysteries of developmental timing. I discuss misunderstandings about the RR framework as well as some of its shortcomings. I strongly reject the notion of a genetic clock and go on to argue for epigenetic outcomes in which genes and environment interact during the protracted period of postnatal brain development.

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Authors' Response
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 355 - 359
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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