Organized Dissonance

Abstract

Since culture is plainly not the same as biology, its replicative system should be unlike that of genetics in some profound way. The central issue of a cultural equivalent of the Darwinian model of evolution is that the nature and operation of the cultural equivalent of genetics has yet to be rigorously defined. If, therefore, a Darwinian approach to culture is to be of consequence, it must specify how culture is coded and identify the way in which culture is replicated. We have to identify the nature and operation of the units of cultural replication.