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Current Darwinism in social science
Title / Series / Name
Publication Volume
Publication Issue
Pages
Editors
Keywords
Sociology
If and only if
Dual inheritance theory
Social science
Sociocultural evolution
Memetics
Darwinism
Sociobiology
Evolutionary psychology
Universal Darwinism
If and only if
Dual inheritance theory
Social science
Sociocultural evolution
Memetics
Darwinism
Sociobiology
Evolutionary psychology
Universal Darwinism
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/13574
Abstract
Darwinian theories concerned with human behaviour come in many forms. They can describe both the biological evolution of human cognition and the evolution of cultural traits in human communities. We briefly review these two types of Darwinian theories, including socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, memetics and dual inheritance theory, and show how insights from both types can be combined in a single framework: cultural epidemiology. We argue, however, that this is profitable only if selectionists models of cultural evolution are replaced by an attractor model.
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Publisher
Place of Publication
Dordrecht
Type
Book chapter
Date
2014
Language
ISBN
978-94-017-9014-7
Identifiers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9014-7_37