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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... consider the structure and function of an organism , and the other when we consider the inheritance of that structure . When we come to society these problems are enormously increased . The most obvious candidate for the status of basic ...
... consider the structure and function of an organism , and the other when we consider the inheritance of that structure . When we come to society these problems are enormously increased . The most obvious candidate for the status of basic ...
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... consider traits one at a time , it runs immediately into one of the basic obstacles confronting any atomistic theory when it tries to explain the generation of organized wholes : this is the gigantic numbers of possible combinations of ...
... consider traits one at a time , it runs immediately into one of the basic obstacles confronting any atomistic theory when it tries to explain the generation of organized wholes : this is the gigantic numbers of possible combinations of ...
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... considering some closely related societies that differ markedly in their mode of subsistence . In this section , therefore , we shall consider the main types of subsistence- gathering , hunting , fishing , pastoralism , shifting ...
... considering some closely related societies that differ markedly in their mode of subsistence . In this section , therefore , we shall consider the main types of subsistence- gathering , hunting , fishing , pastoralism , shifting ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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