How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection
Populations and Evolution
2015-01-20 v1 Neurons and Cognition
Abstract
This article explains how natural selection works and how it has been inappropriately applied to the description of cultural change. It proposes an alternative evolutionary explanation for cultural evolution that describes it in terms of communal exchange.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1501.04391,
title = {How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection},
author = {Liane Gabora},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04391},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, Psychology Today (online). http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindbloggling. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1309.2622