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 …

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 …

Conclusions We believe that a useful, complete theory of culture is simpler than the
dichotomies promoted by the coevolutionary approach suggest. Culture can be regarded as …

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 …

Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially
Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological …

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

How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change
societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors …

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 …

The claim that human culture evolves through the differential adoption of cultural variants, in
a manner analogous to the evolution of biological species, has been greeted with much …

Darwinian Natural Selection t is quite conceiveable," Darwin wrote in his introduction to On
the Origin of Species (1859, p. 3)" that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of …