 Jablonka and Lamb’s account of cultural evolution in humans appeals to the properties of symbolic inheritance, most critically that variations are not blindly copied but rather reconstructed by learners in ways that are sensitive to meaning, social context, and the history of the individuals involved (Jablonka &amp; Lamb 2005/2014). They contrast their view with the meme based account of cultural evolution presented by Dawkins and Blackmore (e.g., Blackmore 1999), which takes cultural items to be stored in human brains and transmitted to other human agents in the form of faithful replication, and cultural change to involve the differential success of replication of the different cultural items. Jablonka and Lamb argue that focusing on replication and selection rather than on the generation of variants and on reconstruction processes is particularly harmful for understanding cultural evolution.