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We extend a cognitive paradigm for gene expression based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to the epigenetic epidemiology of complex developmental disorders in humans. In particular, we recognize the fundamental role culture plays in human biology, a heritage mechanism parallel to, and interacting with, the more familiar genetic and epigenetic systems. We do this via a model through which culture acts as another tunable epigenetic catalyst that both directs developmental trajectories, and becomes convoluted with individual ontology, via a mutually-interacting crosstalk mediated by a social interaction that is itself culturally driven. In sum, embedding culture is an essential component of the regulation of human development and its dysfunctions. The cultural and epigenetic systems of heritage may thus provide the 'missing' heritability of complex diseases that is currently the subject of much scientific discourse.