For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

In Part One of this series, we saw that culture doesn't suffer from the problem that Darwin's theory of natural selection successfully solved: the problem of how change accumulates in biological ...

Enlightenment -- Reaction and recovery : the early nineteenth century -- Rise of racial determinism -- Spencerism -- Evolutionism : methods -- The evolutionists : results -- Dialectical materialism -- ...