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Cultural transmission with an evolved intuitive ontology: Domain-specific cognitive tracks of inheritance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Pascal Boyer
Pascal Boyer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, MRASH, Lyon, Francepboyer@mrash.fr www.ddl.mrash.fr/membres/~Boyer/homepage.html
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Abstract

Atran's account of cultural transmission can be further refined by considering constraints from early-developed, domain-specific intuitive ontological understanding. These suggest specific predictions about the cultural survival of “memes,” depending on the way they activate intuitive understanding. There is no general dynamic of cultural inheritance; only complex predictions for domain-specific competencies that cut across cultural domains.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 570 - 571
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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