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SUBMITTER: Yeh DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6939269 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yeh D Justin DJ Fogarty Laurel L Kandler Anne A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20191204 1916
Many cultural traits are not transmitted independently, but together as a package. This can happen because, for example, media may store information together making it more likely to be transmitted together, or through cognitive mechanisms such as causal reasoning. Evolutionary biology suggests that physical linkage of genes (being on the same chromosome) allows neutral and maladaptive genes to spread by hitchhiking on adaptive genes, while the pairwise difference between neutral genes is unaffe ...[more]