How a Generation Was Misled About Natural Selection

TL;DR

This paper clarifies misconceptions about natural selection and introduces an alternative model of cultural evolution based on communal exchange, challenging traditional views.

Contribution

It presents a novel evolutionary framework for cultural change, moving beyond natural selection to emphasize communal exchange processes.

Findings

Natural selection is often misapplied to culture.

Communal exchange offers a better explanation for cultural evolution.

The proposed model challenges traditional evolutionary theories.

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.