ABSTRACT
This chapter offers studies primarily by historians of religion, offer contributions both theoretical and applied to these continuing discussions. In the view of Sperber and the cognitivists, the cognitive adaptations to an ancestral environment, tends to fix cultural content in and around cognitive domains. By the early twentieth century, in other words, both an evolutionary and a cognitive approach to the study of history had been proposed both, interestingly, with respect to the history of religions. Discussions about the relationship between social and cultural history and the more recent scientific history continue as do those among the natural selectionist's and the cognitive attractionist's, as well a wide range of discussions among those seeking to understand the implications of Darwin's initial insights for an interpretation even an explanation for historical change, or, at least, aspects of that history.
