Is social or cultural evolution Lamarckian in some sense? A positive answer to this question
may appear to threaten the consistency of the biological with the social sciences …

This paper challenges the widely held view that the social sciences are theoretically
impoverished disciplines which have failed to develop anything comparable to the …

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 …

This paper addresses the widespread tendency to describe socio-economic evolution as
Lamarckian. The difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian replication is clarified. It is …

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

Richard Dawkins coined the term universal Darwinism (1983). It suggests that the core
Darwinian principles of variation, replication, and selection may apply not only to biological …

For one thing our newer style of evolution is Lamarckian in nature. The environment cannot
imprint genetical information upon us, but it can and does imprint non genetical information …

How should social scientists, inclined to an evolutionary theory of aspects of human culture
like science, technology, business organization and practice, react to proposals that they …

In the past 150 years there have been many attempts to draw parallels between cultural and
biological evolution. Most of these attempts were flawed due to lack of knowledge and false …

It has been argued repeatedly that the modern study of social and cultural evolution took its
inspiration and form from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and Descent of Man. In 1920 …