What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?
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What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?
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Claidière, N. and D. Sperber. 2007. “The Role of Attraction in Cultural Evolution.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 7(1): 89–111. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853707X171829
Edmonds, B. 2005. “The Revealed Poverty of the Gene-Meme Analogy: Why Memetics per se Has Failed to Produce Substantive Results.” Journal of Memetics. Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission 9(1). https://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2005/vol9/edmonds_b.html
Gardner, A. 2008. “The Price Equation.” Current Biology 18(5): 198–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.005
Kundt, R. 2015. Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study of Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Morin, O. 2016a. How Traditions Live and Die. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. 2016b. “Reasons to Be Fussy about Cultural Evolution.” Biology and Philosophy 31(3): 447–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-016-9516-4
Pinker, S. 2012. “The False Allure of Group Selection.” Edge.org. (Retrieved June 2012) http://edge.org/conversation/the-false-allure-of-group-selection#edn1
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———. 1972. “Extension of Covariance Selection Mathematics.” Annals of Human Genetics 35(4): 485–490. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1957.tb01874.x
Scott-Phillips, T. C. 2017. “A (Simple) Experimental Demonstration that Cultural Evolution Is Not Replicative, but Reconstructive: And an Explanation of Why This Difference Matters.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 17(1–2): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12342188
Sperber, D. 2000. “An Objection to the Memetic Approach to Culture. In Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, edited by R. Aunger, 163–173. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sterelny, K. and P. E. Griffiths 1999. Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Williams, G. C. 1992. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2018-05-15
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Kundt, R. (2018). What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 4(1), 67-71. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.35728
