The Principles of Social Evolution
Clarendon Press, 1986 - 412 Seiten
Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this groundbreaking work asserts that the most common 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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The obvious interpretation is that warfare occurs throughout this area for reasons
unrelated to scarcity of resources ( Koch 1974 , Hallpike 1977 ) , but that where
people are also short of land this will be a simple reason for using their ...
But the more numerous an institution's properties , the more various may be the
reasons for its adoption and the more likely it will therefore be to occur . While
Cohen ( 1977 ) suggests that population pressure was responsible for the shift to
For these reasons we can expect to find that the organization of every society will
be based on certain rules and categories of a general nature , and that these will
display a fair degree of internal consistency . All this does not occur because it ...
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I'm glad this was the first book I read on social evolution. The author does a great job of explaining why the darwinian theory of variation and selection can not be applied directly to social ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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