creators_name: Gabora, L. M. creators_id: liane.gabora@ubc.ca type: journalp datestamp: 2008-03-10 14:49:25 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:05 metadata_visibility: show title: Epigenetic and Cultural Evolution are non-Darwinian ispublished: pub subjects: bio-behav subjects: bio-theory subjects: bio-evo full_text_status: public keywords: epigenesis, cultural evolution, Darwinian theory, natural selection, self-assembly code, origin of life, symbol use, evolution of behavior abstract: The argument that heritable epigenetic change plays a distinct role in evolution would be strengthened through recognition that it is what bootstrapped the origin and early evolution of life, and like behavioral and symbolic change, is non-Darwinian. The mathematics of natural selection, a population-level process, is limited to replication with negligible individual-level change, i.e. that uses a self-assembly code. date: 2007 date_type: published publication: Behavioral and Brain Sciences volume: 30 number: 4 pagerange: 371-371 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Donald, M. (1991). Origins of the modern mind, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Precis with commentary, 1993, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(4), 737-791.) Gabora, L. (2003). Contextual focus: A cognitive explanation for the cultural transition of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic. In (R. Alterman & D. Hirsch, Eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston MA, July 31-August 2. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Gabora, L. (2004). Ideas are not replicators but minds are. Biology & Philosophy, 19(1), 127-143. Gabora, L. (2006). Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241(3), 443-450. Leakey, R. (1984). The origins of humankind. New York: Science Masters Basic Books. Vetsigian, K., C. Woese, & Goldenfeld, N. (2006). Collective evolution and the genetic code. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103, 10696-10701. citation: Gabora, Dr. L. M. (2007) Epigenetic and Cultural Evolution are non-Darwinian. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/5962/1/e4d.htm