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The Evolutionary Culture Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Catherine Driscoll
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Abstract

Most attempts to define culture as used in the cultural evolution literature treat culture as a single phenomenon that can be given a single nondisjunctive definition. In this article I argue that, really, cultural evolutionists employ a variety of distinct but closely related concepts of culture. I show how the main prominent attempts to define a culture concept fail to properly capture all the uses of “culture” employed in cultural evolutionary work. I offer a description of some of the most important culture concepts used by cultural evolutionists.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 35 - 55
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