The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism, and Cultural Selectionism [and Comments and Replies]

摘要: Cultural selectionism is a Darwinian approach to the understanding of human culture which, in constrast sociobiology, holds that cultural evolution proceeds solely on phenotypic level. Unlike structuralism, predicts form taken by any will reflect historical processes rather than underlying, genetically induced biases mind. Genetic selection, however, must be invoked explain both origin capacity for and maintenance this genetic modern humans. Both humans are most realistically modeled if we assume fundamentally an adaptation social, as opposed natural, environment.