Nice take-down of nativism but the emphasis on social learning overlooks the importance of developmental mechanisms that respond adaptively to both genetic & environmental change to shape the infant brain. The approach needed is more cultural evo-devo. Seehttps://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(18)30209-1 …
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It is this kind of "either-or" rhetoric that needs an overhaul. The nature-versus-nurture debate is futile from a dynamic systems perspective. We are talking about gene-culture coevolution.
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Is that not exactly what she is describing?pic.twitter.com/NLZ8yLorHL
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Insightful !-"If the gadgets theory is right, new technologies could stimulate rapid cultural evolution of our mental faculties."
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