Biological and Cultural Evolution: A Proper Analogy: Comment on Martin Stuart-Fox, " Rethinking the Evolution of Culture and Cognitive Structure "

Ever since the 70s of the past century, different authors and schools of thought have been providing theories of cultural evolution moulded to the Darwinist model of evolution by natural selection. Martin Stuart-Fox, biologist, philosopher and renowned historian has given an interesting account, wherein mediating a behavioural definition of culture, he links the processes of development and evolution, worldviews being the common link thereof. Mentemes are the basic distinctive units of worldviews and the drives that rule biological and cultural evolution are, respectively, inclusive fitness and inclusive satisfaction. The material warrants of such an analogy are furnished by the ontological and methodological connections that obtain between the terms of the very analogy