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Diversity, reciprocity, and degrees of unity in wholes, parts, and their scientific representations: System levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Robert B. Glassman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045. glassman@lakeforest.eduhttp://campus/lakeforest.edu/∼glassman/

Abstract

Though capturing powerful analytical principles, this excellent article misses ways in which psychology and neuroscience bear on reciprocity and decision-making. I suggest more explicit consideration of scale. We may go further beyond gene-culture dualism by articulating how varieties of living systems, while ultimately drawing from both genetic and cultural streams, evolve sufficiently as unitary targets of selection to mediate higher-level complex systems.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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