Cultural Evolution :
Cultural evolution” is the idea that human cultural change –– that is, changes in socially transmitted beliefs, knowledge, customs, skills, attitudes, languages, and so on –– can be described as a Darwinian evolutionary process that is similar in key respects (but not identical) to biological/genetic evolution.
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Historical Progression:
Georg Hegel introduced a system for understanding the history of philosophy and the world itself, often called a "dialectic" : a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement. http://www.age-