Open AccessColor categorization: a possible concordance between genes and culture.
Author(s) -
Charles J. Lumsden
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.82.17.5805
Subject(s) - categorization , concordance , ethnography , perception , psychology , ethnic group , selection (genetic algorithm) , correspondence analysis , biology , social psychology , evolutionary biology , communication , genetics , anthropology , sociology , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience
A marked correspondence is found to relate the categories of infant wavelength discrimination and the ethnographic distribution of adult color terms. The structure of the infant category system accounts for at least 75% of the variance in the world ethnographic categories (P less than 0.001). Such a correspondence is predicted to be favored by natural selection when perceptual mechanisms interact with their associated cultural traits.
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