| reasoning about cultural and genetic transmission: developmental and cross-cultural evidence from peru, fiji, and the united states on how people make inferences about trait transmission. | using samples from three diverse populations, we test evolutionary hypotheses regarding how people reason about the inheritance of various traits. first, we provide a framework for differentiat-ing the outputs of mechanisms that evolved for reasoning about variation within and between (a) biological taxa and (b) culturally evolved ethnic categories from (c) a broader set of beliefs and categories that are the outputs of structured learning mechanisms. second, we describe the results of a modifie ... | 2015 | 26417672 |