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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... become better in an ethical sense . More than sixty years ago Lowie expressed the problem as follows : Tools are contrivances for defiinite practical purposes ; if these are accomplished more expeditiously and efficiently by one set of ...
... become better in an ethical sense . More than sixty years ago Lowie expressed the problem as follows : Tools are contrivances for defiinite practical purposes ; if these are accomplished more expeditiously and efficiently by one set of ...
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... becoming difficult to understand how change could ever occur . Cultural equilibrium- and system - models had become the main armaments of environmentalism , and they were leading the environmentalists into a dead end by doing such a ...
... becoming difficult to understand how change could ever occur . Cultural equilibrium- and system - models had become the main armaments of environmentalism , and they were leading the environmentalists into a dead end by doing such a ...
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... become instituted on a permanent basis by being conjoined with the hereditary principle ( ibid . , 343 ) . This ... become far removed and quite separate ; yet , where the territory presents barriers to distant migration , this does not ...
... become instituted on a permanent basis by being conjoined with the hereditary principle ( ibid . , 343 ) . This ... become far removed and quite separate ; yet , where the territory presents barriers to distant migration , this does not ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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