With unbiased cultural transmission, each naïve offspring learns (i.e., copies) the variant expressed by an individual that it chooses randomly (with replacement) from among the parental generation in its group.
I don't want my hypothetical but adorable offspring to learn that boys are the engines and girls are the carriages.
For example, offspring might learn skills from their parents, and thereby come to resemble them behaviourally.
That is, both Tomasello and Chomsky could agree that dispositions to construct 'linguistic niches' — environments in which languages are easy for human offspring to learn — may have been selected for in our species.
Postponement until such a high age increases the risk that offspring will learn about the nature of their conception from someone else, by accident or through increased awareness about heredity.
At times you might feel you're only a good-enough mother, but there's a consolation in knowing the neglected (or at times enslaved – young eyes make very sharp proofreaders) offspring are learning how the world of work can operate.
After teaching the human captain and his wife that acquired traits (like lost limbs) are not passed to offspring, Wrinkles learns about the plight of the crew.
To learn more about Leuser, his mate Gober and their offspring, read the full story in Mongabay.com's Great Ape series, titled Leuser's Legacy: how rescued orangutans help assure species survival.
In particular, BPA-treated offspring may have been less able to learn than the control offspring in terms of causality.
HENLEY We all want to spare our offspring – we want them to learn from our mistakes, and of course that doesn't always happen.
