Rodrick Wallace
The cultural epigenetics of psychopathology: The missing heritability of complex diseases found?
We extend a cognitive paradigm for gene expression to the epigenetic epidemiology of mental disorders, recognizing the fundamental role that culture plays in human biology as another heritage mecha…
Received 11 November 2009 17:52 UTC; Posted 11 November 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Neuroscience
Roman roads: The hierarchical endosymbiosis of cognitive modules
Serial endosymbiosis theory provides a unifying paradigm for examining the interaction of cognitive modules at vastly different scales of biological, social, and cultural organization. A trivial bu…
Received 22 October 2009 16:47 UTC; Posted 02 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
On biological homochirality
Generalizing Landau’s spontaneous symmetry breaking arguments using the standard groupoid approach to stereochemistry allows reconsideration of the origin of biological homochirality. On Earth, lim…
Received 26 October 2009 13:56 UTC; Posted 26 October 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
