Abstract
Summary Hayek spoke of the “errors of sociobiology” though he was very much a Darwinian. The reason is that he thought many of the institutions of the Gesellschaft could not be explained directly by conclusions drawn from the observations of animals: the market, money, or the law were not natural, nor were they rational. They emerged as novelties of cultural evolution, a process that is much faster than, and partially independent of, biological evolution. Modern man’s discontent with civilisation can only be explained by that unnatural character of many of its institutions. These conclusions of Hayek′s are being confirmed by the latest developments of evolutionary psychology, starting with Dawkin’s The Selfish Gene.
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