Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

by Maria Kronfeldner

The author examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036787220X
• ISBN13: 9780367872205
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"