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The rich detail of cultural symbol systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Dwight W. Read
Dwight W. Read*
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Department of Anthropology and Department of Statistics, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. dread@anthro.ucla.edu http://ucla.academia.edu/DwightRead
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Abstract

The goal of forming a science of intentional behavior requires a more richly detailed account of symbolic systems than is assumed by the authors. Cultural systems are not simply the equivalent in the ideational domain of culture of the purported Baldwin Effect in the genetic domain.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 434 - 435
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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