title: Condition-dependent adaptive phenotypic plasticity and interspecific gene-culture coevolution.
abstract: Evolutionary socioecological theory and research proposing linking parasites with human social organization is uncommon and therefore welcome. However, more generally, condition-dependent adaptive phenotypic plasticity requires environmental uncertainty on a small scale, accompanied by reliable cues. In addition, genes in parasites may select among biologically adaptive cultural alternatives directly without necessarily going through human genetic predispositions, resulting in inter-specific gene-culture coevolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada. marion.blute@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blute
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological