文化动态为行为遗传学增添了多个复杂层面。

Cultural dynamics add multiple layers of complexity to behavioural genetics.

机构信息

Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig,

Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.

出版信息

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Sep 13;45:e161. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21001783.

DOI:10.1017/S0140525X21001783

PMID:36098445

Abstract

As emphasized in early cultural evolutionary theory, understanding heritability of human traits - especially, behavioural traits - is difficult. The target article describes important ways that culture can enhance, or obscure, signatures of heritability in genetic studies. Here, we discuss the utility of calculating heritability for behavioural traits influenced by cultural evolution and point to conceptual and technical complications to consider in future models.

摘要

正如早期文化进化理论所强调的，理解人类特征（尤其是行为特征）的遗传性是困难的。本文描述了文化在遗传研究中增强或掩盖遗传性特征的重要方式。在这里，我们讨论了计算受文化进化影响的行为特征的遗传性的效用，并指出了在未来模型中需要考虑的概念和技术复杂性。