Linnda R. Caporael (1996) Repeated Assembly . Psycoloquy: 7(04) Group Selection (6)
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Psycoloquy 7(04): Repeated Assembly

REPEATED ASSEMBLY
Reply to Harris on Group-Selection

Linnda R. Caporael
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

caporl@rpi.edu

Abstract

Internal, essential nature contrasted with external, molding forces has had an irresistible grip on the imagination, one long preceding modern biology. Add to that the impoverished language for generalizing about the contingent interactions of genetic and epigenetic factors in the formation of phenotype, and difficulties are bound to arise. Repeated assembly is a vocabulary for replacing the Scylla and Charybdis of nature-nurture dualism.

Keywords

developmental systems theory, group coordination, group selection, hierarchy, human evolution, social cognition, social identity, teleofunctionalism

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