What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?

Authors

  • Radek Kundt LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.35728

Keywords:

natural selection, replicator, group selection, superorganism, Price

Abstract

What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?

Author Biography

  • Radek Kundt, LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University

    LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University

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Published

2018-05-15

How to Cite

Kundt, R. (2018). What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 4(1), 67-71. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.35728