The rise and fall of "cultural evolution"

Why cultural evolution is fake

Too many people give credit to the idea of “cultural evolution.” In this article, I question the validity of the concept of “cultural evolution”, starting with its historical origins. It has mostly served as a psuedo-scientific cudgel to advance the aims of blank-slatists. A tour of its first models reveals rampant fallacious reasoning and bad assumptions. The combination of this history, the bad assumptions baked into the concept, and the incoherency of the word “culture” lead me to conclude that the term and its baggage should be abandoned for a better alternative.