Gene-culture translation in the avoidance of sibling incest
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPublished 1 October 1980Open access
Charles J. Lumsden, Edward O. Wilson
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A preliminary analysis is made of the relation between the epigenetic rules of brother-sister incest avoidance, which operate during individual development, and the frequency of occurrence of this form of incest among cultures.
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A preliminary analysis is made of the relation between the epigenetic rules of brother-sister incest avoidance, which operate during individual development, and the frequency of occurrence of this form of incest among cultures.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesTranslation of epigenetic rules of individual behavior into ethnographic patterns
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A probabilistic model is constructed to estimate the degree to which rules governing individual development canalize ethnographic curves (the probability density distributions of societies engaged in varying patterns of usage) and indicates that under most conceivable conditions the translation from individual epigenesis to social pattern is amplified.