title: Cultural variant interaction in teaching and transmission.
abstract: Focus on the way in which cultural variants affect other variants' probabilities of transmission in modeling and empirical work can enrich Kline's conceptualization of teaching. For example, the problem of communicating complex cumulative culture is an adaptive problem; teaching methods that manage transmission so that acquisition of some cultural variants increases the probability of acquiring others, provide a partial solution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy,University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham,AL 35294-1260mabrams@uab.eduhttp://members.logical.net/~marshall.
authors.forename: Marshall
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abrams
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans