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Gene-culture coevolution: toward a general theory of vertical transmission.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Dec 1992
Feldman M W, Zhivotovsky L A
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A general formulation of cultural and genetic transmission is developed. The cultural transmission is vertical and the genetics may involve multiple loci. Each individual is represented by a phenogenotype, and conditions are given under which the evolutionary dynamics of phenogenotype frequencies are reducible to phenogametic or phenoallelic frequencies. The interaction between genes and culture is specified by...
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