Cumulative Record. Chapter 4: The Design of Cultures. Quote 4

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Inherited patterns of behavior must have been selected by their contributions to survival in ways which are not unlike those in which the behavior of the individual is selected or shaped by its reinforcing consequences. (p. 42)

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