By introducing the concept of the natural selection of individual organisms, Darwin was able
to cut through the mystification surrounding theological discussions of the origin of species …

A brief review of the evolutionism of Comte, Marx, Spencer, and Durkheim, representatives
of the Masters, reveals an excessive concern with the integration of differentiation. This …

Recent evidence indicates that biological evolution and cultural history are linked together.
Study of the linkage has been active in the past several years and constitutes a new phase …

Charles Darwin's" On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species
had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force …

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology-from systematics and principles of
evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and …

At least since the time of Darwin, there has been a tradition of borrowing between
evolutionary theory and the social sciences. Darwin himself owed a debt to the Scottish …

Save for Anthropologists, few social scientists have been among the participants in the
discussions about the appropriate structure of a 'Universal Darwinism'. Yet evolutionary …

This chapter proposes the hypotheses that the cultural characteristics of human social
groups result to a large extent from internal, individual-level selective retention, and more …

Ludwig von Bertalanffy often argued that natural selection must fail as a comprehensive
theory because it explains too much--a paradoxical, but perceptive statement. Most work in …

Applications of modern evolutionary theory to human culture have generated several
different theoretical approaches that challenge traditional anthropological …