BioConcepts

symbolic inheritance systemsprachliches Vererbungssystem (ger.)

• Transmission of traits through a specialized medium of communication that is based on symbols (e.g. human culture). (HWB 2011)
  category heredity see also behavioural inheritance system epigenetic inheritance system genetic inheritance system

  2001

  [Symbolical Systems of Inheritance (SIS) […] symbolic systems are transmitted by social learning, which often involves imitation and a greater or lesser degree of intentional instruction.

  Jablonka, E. (2001). The systems of inheritance. In: Oyama, S., Griffiths, P.E. & Gray, R.D. (eds.). Cycles of Contingency, 99-116: 111-2.]

  2002

  The symbolic inheritance system (SIS) is a specifically human inheritance system. The transmission of information through symbols allows a great deal of cultural and social evolution

  Jablonka, E. (2002). Information: its interpretation, its inheritance, and its sharing. Philosophy of Science 69, 578-605: 596.