Splitting the replicator: Generalized Darwinism and the place of culture in nature

► Replication is revealed as filling two distinguishable functions in organic evolution: Memory and Synthesis (introducing variation). ► As these functions can be otherwise served, replication does not appear to be a fundamental Darwinian function. ► It is argued that the combination of Interaction + Synthesis + Memory works better than that of Replication + Interaction in a Generalized Darwinism.