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Review
. 2016 Apr:8:190-193.
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.12.012. Epub 2015 Dec 17.

Intentional cultural change

David Sloan Wilson  1
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Intentional cultural change

David Sloan Wilson. Curr Opin Psychol. 2016 Apr.

Abstract

As a process of blind variation and selective retention, evolution lacks intentionality. Nevertheless, intentional processes can be a product of evolution and can double back to effect evolution. This article briefly describes how intentional processes evolve, how they figure in human cultural evolution, and how future cultural evolution needs to become more intentional.

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