Organisms arise from epigenetic resources spanning RNA to social roles

Evidence

In adopting neo-Darwinism, psychologists poorly understood evo-devo. It is one of a number of extensions of evolutionary theory that share a view of biological phenomena as being hierarchically organized (e.g., DNA, cells, tissues, organisms, groups), and organisms as the result of various necessary genetic and epigenetic resources (Oyama, 1985; Griffiths & Gray, 1994). These include genes and a broad range of epigenetic factors that range from RNA to nutrition, language environments, and social roles, all of which have different temporal scales and cycles of replication. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 389

Categorization

• XREF: The view of organisms as assembled from layered resources resonates with the evo-devo rethinking of intergroup and interindividual mechanisms central to the reader’s prejudice thread.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 389