William Morse  wrote, snipping out one sentence:

> One of the key competitive advantages of cultural transmission is that it
> allows for Lamarckian evolution - the inheritance of acquired 
> characteristics - on top of the power of Mendelian (genetic) evolution.

No, it doesn't. Cultural evolution is the evolution of cultural
phenotypes, not biological phenotypes, and the former do not inherit
acquired characters.
-- 
John Wilkins wilkins.id.au
For long you live and high you fly, 
and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be
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