La arquitectura de la detección de parentesco humano

Debra Lieberman1, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

  • 1Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. debra@debralieberman.com

Nature
|February 16, 2007
PubMed
Resumen

Los seres humanos poseen mecanismos evolucionados de detección de parentesco, al contrario de lo que se pensaba anteriormente. Estos sistemas calculan la relación genética utilizando señales como la crianza compartida, influyendo en el altruismo y la aversión al incesto.

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