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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... evidence of any historical change at all ( ibid . , 261 ) ; having no complex social institutions ( ibid . , 260 ) ; and being entirely ordered on the basis of kinship ; thus ' . . . there is good prima facie evidence that all apparent ...
... evidence of any historical change at all ( ibid . , 261 ) ; having no complex social institutions ( ibid . , 260 ) ; and being entirely ordered on the basis of kinship ; thus ' . . . there is good prima facie evidence that all apparent ...
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... evidence , often rejecting much of the available evidence on obscure scientific intuitive grounds as they sought to construct theories that are deep and intelligible . Furthermore , although the creation of new theory is an achievement ...
... evidence , often rejecting much of the available evidence on obscure scientific intuitive grounds as they sought to construct theories that are deep and intelligible . Furthermore , although the creation of new theory is an achievement ...
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... evidence . Evidence conforms to conceptions just as often as conceptions conform to evidence . After all , conceptions are not logical systems , no matter how much they aspire to that status . They are stylized units which either ...
... evidence . Evidence conforms to conceptions just as often as conceptions conform to evidence . After all , conceptions are not logical systems , no matter how much they aspire to that status . They are stylized units which either ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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