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Communal Exchange Theory

The commentaries also indicate strong support for the second basic premise of the paper: culture evolves through communal exchange amongst self-organizing, autopoietic networks, in a manner that is algorithmically similar to metabolism-first theories of the origin of life. Smith points out that the communal exchange approach to culture “avoids a monolithic conception of ‘culture’ (again a common item of critique in evolutionary approaches to culture)” and that it “places a premium on

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This research was conducted with the assistance of grants from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders, Belgium.

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