Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology-from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning-based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biolog...