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Why Culture Isn’t Darwinian (and it’s Misleading Even to Say “Not Strictly Darwinian”)

2025-11-12

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<p>Culture evolves; i.e., exhibits cumulative, adaptive, open-ended change. The theory of biological evolution through natural selection integrated the life sciences under one explanatory umbrella. Many suggest that this theory can also explain cultural evolution, integrating the social sciences under one explanatory umbrella as well. Darwin’s theory solved the problem of how change persists in lineages despite th...

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Literature Corpus work: 9aab16ef-c584-5c3a-88ce-3ab7f3b3d9fd
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9auwv_v1

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