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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... essential characteristics when the engine is dismantled , and we can establish the essential properties of the parts of an organism or the institutions of a society independently of biology one finds an important tradition arguing , on ...
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... essential requirements for using the notion of adaptation in a truly explanatory way . First , it is essential to be able to specify in precise terms the trait whose presence and survival one wishes to explain , and to specify with ...
... essential requirements for using the notion of adaptation in a truly explanatory way . First , it is essential to be able to specify in precise terms the trait whose presence and survival one wishes to explain , and to specify with ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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