期刊名称：Gruter Institute Working Papers on Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Biology
出版年度：2001
卷号：1
出版社：Bepress
摘要：Does law itself evolve? It has
been widely suggested that culturally transmitted behavioral information
exhibits a Darwinian evolutionary dynamic. The argument is straightforward.
Darwinian evolution has three basic elements: (i) replicative descent with (ii)
variation, subject to (iii) a form of selection. Bundles of cultural information
as diverse as language, religious practices, and how to bake bread pass with
imperfect fidelity from generation to generation. Some of the variants created
by these imperfections are passed, non-randomly, to the next generation with
greater frequency.
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