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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... particular , was quite unnecessary from a functional point of view , and it was obvious that the Konso could have organized themselves in many other ways , all of which would have allowed them to survive quite adequately in their particular ...
... particular , was quite unnecessary from a functional point of view , and it was obvious that the Konso could have organized themselves in many other ways , all of which would have allowed them to survive quite adequately in their particular ...
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... particular phenomenon , and the organism level may seem primus inter pares because we are more familiar with the phenomena for which it is most suitable , but no level of selection has absolute primacy over the others . ( Williams 1973 ...
... particular phenomenon , and the organism level may seem primus inter pares because we are more familiar with the phenomena for which it is most suitable , but no level of selection has absolute primacy over the others . ( Williams 1973 ...
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... particular objective : ' All those who , at any particular time , had a strong reason for uniting together by the power of the communal rite , formed a hvirfingr , or as we would say " formed a circle " for the libation ' ( ibid . , 58 ) ...
... particular objective : ' All those who , at any particular time , had a strong reason for uniting together by the power of the communal rite , formed a hvirfingr , or as we would say " formed a circle " for the libation ' ( ibid . , 58 ) ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Darwinism and Social Evolution | 29 |
The Survival of the Mediocre | 81 |
Urheberrecht | |
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