Michael MuthukrishnaDec 3, 2022

🚨 What's the cultural evolution of genetic heritability?

We got a lot of commentaries on our article. Here's a 🧵 summary of our reply "Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics".

But first, in case you missed it, here's the target article summary.

QT mmuthukrishna: 🚨New target article in \@BBSJournal: "Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability" w/ @ryutarouchiyama @rachelaspicer

Preprint: http://muth.io/cegh

BBS:… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1597536259802423296

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We wanted to start a conversation between cultural evolution & behavioral genetics. Both try to explain variation in human behavior yet haven't sufficiently engaged with one another. The response was overwhelming! 29 diverse commentaries were accepted: 1/

QT mmuthukrishna: After the 88 tweet long thread on our recent BBS paper - "Cultural evolution of genetic heritability" - I thought it was only fair to tweet each of the comments we… https://twitter.com/twitter/status/1597536262683971585

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“We wanted to start a conversation between cultural evolution & behavioral genetics. Both try to explain variation in human behavior yet haven't sufficiently engaged with one another. The response was overwhelming! 29 diverse commentaries were accepted: 1/”

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A truly interdisciplinary group of scholars responded. Researchers in behavioral genetics & cultural evolution, but also evolutionary biology broadly, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, education, philosophy. They pushed back, raised further points, and suggested extensions 2/
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