Department of Psychology,Ajou University,Woncheon-dong,Yeongtong-gu,Suwon,
Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University,Yongin,
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Jun;37(3):262-3. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002896.
We question Smaldino's argument that culture plays the active role of maintaining and transmitting social organizations of differentiated individuals. Culture is an aggregate of individual differences in psychological variables within and between groups; it was not designed by group-level selection to maintain the structured organization of individuals. We conclude that Smaldino fails to present the crucial mechanism by which group-level traits are maintained, transmitted, and evolve.
我们质疑斯玛尔迪诺的观点，即文化起着维持和传递分化个体的社会组织的积极作用。文化是群体内部和群体之间心理变量个体差异的总和；它不是由群体水平选择设计来维持个体的结构化组织。我们的结论是，斯玛尔迪诺未能提出维持、传递和进化群体水平特征的关键机制。
