An evolutionary framework for cultural change: Selectionism versus communal exchange
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An evolutionary framework for cultural change: selectionism versus communal exchange.
Dawkins' replicator-based conception of evolution has led to widespread mis-application of selectionism across the social sciences because it does not address the paradox that necessitated the theory of natural selection in the first place: how do organisms accumulate change when traits acquired over their lifetime are obliterated? This is addressed by von Neumann's concept of a self-replicatin...
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The commentators have brought a wealth of new perspectives to the question of how culture evolves. Each of their diverse disciplines--ranging from psychology to biology to anthropology to economics to engineering--has a valuable contribution to make to our understanding of this complex, multifaceted topic. Though the vast majority of their comments were supportive of my approach, it is natural ...
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This is an outstanding paper. There is surely some truth to the notion that culture evolves, but the Darwinian view of culture is trivial. Consider the following example: the economic evolution from the Turing machine, to the mainframe computer, to personal computer, to word processing, file sharing, the Web, and selling things on the web. In what sense is selling on the web a mutant variant of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics of Life Reviews
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1571-0645
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.03.006