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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.'
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    given: 'L. M. '
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date: 2007
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keywords: 'epigenesis, cultural evolution, Darwinian theory, natural selection, self-assembly code, origin of life, symbol use, evolution of behavior'
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number: 4
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publication: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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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.)\r\n\r\nGabora, 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.\r\n\r\nGabora, L. (2004). Ideas are not replicators but minds are. Biology & Philosophy, 19(1), 127-143.\r\n\r\nGabora, L. (2006). Self-other organization: Why early life did not evolve through natural selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241(3), 443-450.\r\n\r\nLeakey, R. (1984). The origins of humankind. New York: Science Masters Basic Books.\r\n\r\nVetsigian, K., C. Woese, & Goldenfeld, N. (2006). Collective evolution and the genetic code. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103, 10696-10701."
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status_changed: 2008-03-10 14:49:25
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  - bio-behav
  - bio-theory
  - bio-evo
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title: Epigenetic and Cultural Evolution are non-Darwinian
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