The Principles of Social EvolutionClarendon Press, 1986 - 412 Seiten Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution. |
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... adaptive in the long run is not 100 % , so that many innovations , however purposeful and intelligent they may seem to their proponents and first adopters , may not turn out to be highly adaptive , at least on a long term basis ...
... adaptive in the long run is not 100 % , so that many innovations , however purposeful and intelligent they may seem to their proponents and first adopters , may not turn out to be highly adaptive , at least on a long term basis ...
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... adaptive , but this elementary truism will be challenged by no one . The question is , first , whether it is the adaptive advantages of an institution that explain its survival and spread to different societies , and secondly , if so ...
... adaptive , but this elementary truism will be challenged by no one . The question is , first , whether it is the adaptive advantages of an institution that explain its survival and spread to different societies , and secondly , if so ...
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... adaptive systems , whose subtle adjustments to the demands of the environment are only detectable to twentieth - century science . Instead of a genuine Darwinian explanation , what we are in fact typically given is a low - grade ...
... adaptive systems , whose subtle adjustments to the demands of the environment are only detectable to twentieth - century science . Instead of a genuine Darwinian explanation , what we are in fact typically given is a low - grade ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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