Abstract
To what extent does the discussions in various evolutionary fields – evolutionary biology or gene-culture coevolution – inform institutionalist scholars focusing on the process of institutional change? In this chapter I present a short history of the evolutionary thinking in social sciences, discuss some relevant debates within the field of evolutionary biology and investigate the degree to which debates within the field of gene-culture coevolution offer relevant instruments that can be employed in the study of institutional change. In the last section I present the evolutionary approach to institutional change developed by Ostrom and Basurto and analyze the similarity of the institutional language and the concepts developed in the evolutionary fields previously analyzed
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