Individual development emerges from recurrent relationships and heterogeneous resources.

Evidence

Briefly, repeated assemblies are characterized by recurrent relationships between an entity and its environment, heterogeneous resources, and hierarchical structural organization. For example, in the human case, mother–infant dyads are repeatedly assembled. “Having a mother” is a stable recurrent relationship between the infant and its caregiver. A variety of resources, including cultural beliefs about gender, genes, artifacts specialized for infants, and a speech environment contribute to phenotypic development. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 391

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘repeated assemblies’ — the core concept needed to follow the rest of the chapter’s evolutionary argument.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 391
• XREF: connects to: Identity development is produced by environmental settings, not individual processes alone — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 44