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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... belief in ancestral spirits , witchcraft , and divination . The standard Durkheimian response would be , as we have seen , that although such beliefs may be false they survive because they satisfy certain needs or provide certain ...
... belief in ancestral spirits , witchcraft , and divination . The standard Durkheimian response would be , as we have seen , that although such beliefs may be false they survive because they satisfy certain needs or provide certain ...
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... belief , since these characteristics of the DNM idea of God can be found in the beliefs of societies all over the ... belief either . Lincoln has therefore taken a solitary and exceptional belief ( that of the Nuer Spirits of the Air and ...
... belief , since these characteristics of the DNM idea of God can be found in the beliefs of societies all over the ... belief either . Lincoln has therefore taken a solitary and exceptional belief ( that of the Nuer Spirits of the Air and ...
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... beliefs are nonsense : on the contrary , they typically go out of their way to find elements of indigenous belief that can plausibly be represented as similar to Christian doctrine . ( The difference in the names of the deities seems to ...
... beliefs are nonsense : on the contrary , they typically go out of their way to find elements of indigenous belief that can plausibly be represented as similar to Christian doctrine . ( The difference in the names of the deities seems to ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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