Cultural selection theory

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Cultural selection theory is the study of cultural change modelled on theories of evolutionary biology.^[1] Cultural selection theory has so far never been a separate discipline.^[2] However it has been proposed^[3] that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and "the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with the structure of the science of biological evolution".^[3] In addition to Darwin's work the term historically covers a diverse range of theories^[2] from both the sciences and the humanities including those of Lamark, politics and economics e.g. Bagehot, anthropology e.g. Edward B. Tylor, literature e.g. Ferdinand Brunetière, evolutionary ethics e.g. Leslie Stephen, sociology e.g. Albert Keller, anthropology e.g. Bronislaw Malinowski, Biosciences e.g. Alex Mesoudi,^[3] geography e.g. Richard Ormrod,^[4] sociobiology and biodiversity e.g. E.O. Wilson, computer programming e.g. Richard Brodie,^[5] and other fields e.g. Neoevolutionism, and Evolutionary archaeology.^[6]