PsychologistIsraeli psychologist [[Liane Gabora]] has criticised DIT.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gabora |first1=Liane |title=The cultural evolution of socially situated cognition |journal=Cognitive Systems Research |date=March 2008 |volume=9 |issue=1–2 |pages=104–114 |doi=10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.05.004 |arxiv=0803.2568 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gabora |first1=Liane |title=Five Clarifications about Cultural Evolution |journal=Journal of Cognition and Culture |date=2011 |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |pages=61–83 |doi=10.1163/156853711x568699 |arxiv=1309.2622 }}</ref><ref>Gabora, L. (2011). [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindbloggling/201105/how-generation-was-misled-about-natural-selection How a generation was misled about natural selection]. ''Psychology Today'', Mindbloggling.</ref> She argues that traits that are ''not'' transmitted by way of a self-assembly code (as in genetic evolution) is misleading, because this second use does not capture the algorithmic structure that makes an inheritance system require a particular kind of mathematical framework.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gabora | first1 = L | year = 2013 | title = An evolutionary framework for culture: Selectionism versus communal exchange. | journal = Physics of Life Reviews | volume = 10 | issue = 2| pages = 117–145 | doi=10.1016/j.plrev.2013.03.006 | pmid = 23623043 | arxiv = 1206.4386 | s2cid = 11208336 }}</ref>
Other criticisms of the effort to frame culture in tandem with evolution have been leveled by [[Richard Lewontin]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Fracchia | first1 = J. | last2 = Lewontin | first2 = R. C. | year = 1999 | title = Does culture evolve? | journal = History and Theory | volume = 38 | issue = 4| pages = 52–78 | doi=10.1111/0018-2656.00104}}</ref> [[Niles Eldredge]],<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Temkin | first1 = I. | last2 = Eldredge | first2 = N. | year = 2007 | title = Phylogenetics and material cultural evolution | journal = Current Anthropology | volume = 48 | issue = 1| pages = 146–153 | doi=10.1086/510463| s2cid = 53466862 }}</ref> and [[Stuart Kauffman]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kauffman | first1 = S | year = 1999 | title = Darwinism, neoDarwinism, and the autocatalytic model of culture: Commentary on Origin of Culture | url = http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.022 | journal = Psycoloquy | volume = 10 | issue = 22| pages = 1–4 }}</ref>
