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Cultural evolution is more than neurological evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Thorbjørn Knudsen  and
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Thorbjørn Knudsen*
Affiliation:
Department of Marketing and Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark http://www.sam.sdu.dk/ansat/tok
Geoffrey M. Hodgson*
Affiliation:
Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics, The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom http://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info
*
tok@sam.sdu.dk
g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk
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Advancing a general Darwinian framework to explain culture is an exciting endeavor. It requires that we face up to the challenge of identifying the specific components that are effective in replication processes in culture. This challenge includes the unsolved problem of explaining cultural inheritance, both at the level of individuals and at the level of social organizations and institutions.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 356 - 357
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006