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1. Introduction
2. Speaker's book as reference for the lecture
3. Other references
4. Definition of culture
5. Analogies between genes and culture (1)
6. Bede's death song: example of cultural mutation
7. Analogies between genes and culture (2)
8. Vertical cultural transmission (1)
9. Some vertical transmission simple cases
10. Vertical cultural transmission (2)
11. Case studies
12. Chip of oscillation
13. Selection with vertical transmission
14. Vertical transmission: case 5
15. The "Kuru" model
16. Evolution in the Kuru model
17. Transmission in models with three semes
18. Oblique transmission
19. Horizontal transmission
20. Oblique/horizontal transmission: S-shaped change
21. Rates of change
22. Niche construction in vertical transmission rates
23. Traits interaction during cultural evolution
24. Education and fertility-reducing preference
25. Types of learning
26. Social learning in temporally changing environment
27. Constraints on cultural variation
28. Culture and its effect on genes
29. Two examples of cultural traits effecting genes
30. First example: hemoglobin S and forest cutting
31. Second example: lactase persistence
32. Milk tolerance genes in different populations
33. Quantification of genetic and cultural spread

Topics Covered

• Culture definition
• Analogies between genes and culture
• An example of cultural mutation
• Vertical cultural transmission
• Case studies
• Selection with vertical transmission
• The "Kuru" model
• Transmission in models with three semes
• Oblique transmission
• Horizontal transmission
• Rates of change
• Cultural niche construction in vertical transmission rates
• Constraints on cultural variation
• Culture and its effect on genes
• Quantification of genetic and cultural spread

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Series:

• Human Population Genetics I

Categories:

• Genetics & Epigenetics

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Marcus Feldman has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.