Cultural evolution is more than neurological evolution
Thorbjørn Knudsen a1andGeoffrey M. Hodgson a2 a1 Department of Marketing and Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark; tok@sam.sdu.dkhttp://www.sam.sdu.dk/ansat/tok a2 Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics, The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom. g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.ukhttp://www.geoffrey-hodgson.info
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.
