The roots of cultural evolutionism are intertwined with the biological theory of natural selection—a theory arrived at by Charles Darwin and made famous in his book The Origin of Species. Yet biological and cultural evolution each has “rules of its own” and confusing the two is a grave error. Biological evolution is the natural process that led to the creation of humans and other species long after unicellular bacteria appeared on Earth. Cultural evolution, on the other hand, involves manifestations of the evolution of human intell