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Condition-dependent adaptive phenotypic plasticity and interspecific gene-culture coevolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2012

Marion Blute
Marion Blute
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Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada. marion.blute@utoronto.cahttp://individual.utoronto.ca/marionblute/
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Abstract

Evolutionary socioecological theory and research proposing linking parasites with human social organization is uncommon and therefore welcome. However, more generally, condition-dependent adaptive phenotypic plasticity requires environmental uncertainty on a small scale, accompanied by reliable cues. In addition, genes in parasites may select among biologically adaptive cultural alternatives directly without necessarily going through human genetic predispositions, resulting in inter-specific gene-culture coevolution.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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