@inbook{7261f48940744e23b91e6a5b4c7b09db,
title = "Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission",
abstract = "The explosion of scientific results about epigenetic and other parental effects appears bewilderingly diverse. An important distinction helps to bring order to the data. Firstly, parents can detect adaptively-relevant information and transmit it to their offspring who rely on it to set a plastic phenotype adaptively. Secondly, adaptively-relevant information may be generated by a process of selection on a reliably transmitted parental effect. The distinction is particularly valuable in revealing two quite different ways in which human cultural transmission may operate.",
author = "Nicholas Shea",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780262018531",
series = "Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology",
publisher = "MIT Press",
pages = "289--312",
editor = "Kim Sterelny and Richard Joyce and Brett Calcott and Ben Fraser",
booktitle = "Cooperation and Its Evolution",
}