By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the…

We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could…

— Jane Goodall

“The contemporary anthropologist, under democrats' severe gaze, skips quickly over ethnic differences like over hot coals.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment … The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural…

— James Gleick

It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it…

— Paul Horowitz

“Many humanists and artists recoil from the proposition that cultural evolution has hitherto been shaped by unconscious impersonal forces. The determined nature of the…

— Marvin Harris

“I hold it perniciously false to teach that all cultural forms are equally probable and that by mere force of will an inspired individual…

— Marvin Harris

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as…

— Mark Pagel

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

— Werner Herzog

The current nation-state model is the product of thousands of years of political, social, and cultural evolution. I mean, it was only recently -…

— Stephen Miller

“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't…

— David Marusek

“So again and again we see how under the prevailing paradigm our real past—and the original thrust of our cultural evolution—can only be seen…

— Riane Eisler

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological,…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Our body’s evolutionary journey is also far from over. Natural selection didn’t stop when farming started but instead has continued and continues to adapt…

— Daniel E. Lieberman