RT Review
T1 Comment on Radek Kundt's "Contemporary evolutionary theories of culture and the study of religion"
JF Religio
VO 24
IS 1
SP 53
OP 63
A1 Wunn, Ina 1954-
A2 Kundt, Radek 1981-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1743552238
AB This review article highlights an important approach in the science of religion: it not only values Radek Kundt's very learned critique of commonly used evolutionary accounts, including the so-called "Evolutionary Study of Culture Without Cultural Evolution" (EWCE) acounts based on cognitive approaches, but also illustrates the reason for their deficiency - a lack of biological knowledge about evolution, and, as a result, the failure to address the question of the evolving unit. Just this question - what is evolving, and why - is only touched on by Kundt. The enormous value of the book, however, lies in the fact that the popular (but wrong) thesis of an existing form of group selection is rebutted and unmasked: accounts of group selection do not offer more than "poor metaphor and misleading analogy".
K1 Contemporary Evolutionary Theories of Culture and the Study od Religion
K1 Radek Kundt
K1 Evolution
K1 evolutionary approaches to culture
K1 evolving unit
K1 Neo-darwinism
K1 Rezension