What Is the Relationship of Spencerian, Durkheimian and Marxian Natural Selections to Darwinian Natural Selection and How Can We Formalize Their Mutual Interaction?
Issue: Vol 4 No. 1 (2016) Special Issue on Evolutionary Theories of Religion
Journal: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Cognitive Studies Linguistics
DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.35728
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Author: Radek Kundt
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