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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... forms . ( We are bound , of course , to consider combinations of traits , since traits may enhance or nullify one another's effectiveness . ) So even a minimally adequate trait list for any society would consist of a large number of ...
... forms . ( We are bound , of course , to consider combinations of traits , since traits may enhance or nullify one another's effectiveness . ) So even a minimally adequate trait list for any society would consist of a large number of ...
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... forms that are available at any one time and place , and secondly on the importance that attaches to choosing the right variant . If there is only one possible way of doing something , no matter how important that something may be ...
... forms that are available at any one time and place , and secondly on the importance that attaches to choosing the right variant . If there is only one possible way of doing something , no matter how important that something may be ...
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... forms of institution by a succession of structural transformations , each of which depends on the properties of earlier forms . It is clearly false to suppose that all early writing was in the form of pictures of objects because this ...
... forms of institution by a succession of structural transformations , each of which depends on the properties of earlier forms . It is clearly false to suppose that all early writing was in the form of pictures of objects because this ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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