Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws and theories seem to evolve through variation, selection and replication.

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontolog

This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purpos

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and lan

Recent years have seen a transformation in thinking about the nature of culture. Rather than viewing culture in opposition to biology, a growing number of resea