  The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is beginning to fulfill the whole
promise of Darwinian insight through its extension of evolutionary
understanding from the biological domain to include cultural information
evolution. Several decades of important foundation-laying work took a social
Darwinist approach and exhibited and ecologically-deterministic elements. This
is not the case with more recent developments to the evolutionary study of
culture, which emphasize non-Darwinian processes such as self-organization,
potentiality, and epigenetic change.
