Jungles and computers: neuronal group selection and the epidemiology of representations.
A commentary on D. Sperber's “Anthropology and psychology: towards an epidemiology of representations,” which appeared in Man, vol. 20, 1985, pp. 73-89. Sperber argued that humans are susceptible to certain representations and not others due to genetically specified mental devices and that this he...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 2; pp. 99 - 117 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 1996
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