books.google.com - Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms and theories seem to "evolve" through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether this comparison is "just a metaphor," or whether...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Evolution_of_Cultural_Entities.html?id=dvdJvQWti_sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-share“The” Evolution of Cultural Entities