we can study development (of [[policy|behaviour]], [[language acquisition]], etc) across three time scales: | [[gene\|genetic]] evolution | [[culture\|cultural]] evolution | growth within lifetime | | --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | "phylogenetic" | "memetic" | "ontogenetic" | | "nature" ([[innate]]) | "nature / nurture" | "nurture" ([[empiricism]]) | | [[gene]] | [[culture\|meme]] | [[psychology and epistemology\|mind]] | | [[natural selection]] | [[natural selection]] / [[history]] | [[developmental psychology]] / [[human memory]] / [[human inductive bias\|human learning]] | | [[species]] | [[intersectionality\|social group]] / [[sequential decision environment\|environment]] | individual | | hundred-thousands of years | hundreds of years | less than a hundred years | [[credit assignment]] across these is often difficult! see [[dual inheritance]], [[hominid]], [[Homo sapiens]]