Human traits recur through repeated face-to-face group assembly, not just genes

Evidence

In the standard evolutionary psychology model, genes account for all recurrence, and the selective domain is hunter-gatherer groups in the Plio-Pleistocene. In the evo-devo model that we use, recurrence results from the repeated assembly of multiple resources (including cultural and artifactual resources). The selective domains for uniquely human capacities are core configurations of face-to-face groups that recur in daily life, in development, and plausibly in human evolutionary history. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the evo-devo model’s account of recurrence and selective domain against standard evolutionary psychology.
• XREF: The face-to-face group as selective domain connects directly to Milgrom’s community-reputation mechanism and Allport’s ingroup-contact framework in the reader’s prejudice thread. — connects to: People can be perceived as carriers of deep time and genetic continuity — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 404
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390