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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 410 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Social evolution
    Abstract: How can the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours seen in nature be explained? Drawing on social evolution theory, experimental evidence and studies conducted in the field, this book outlines the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying this phenomenal richness.To succeed in the competition for resources, organisms may either 'race' to be quicker than others, 'fight' for privileged access, or 'share' their efforts and gains. The authors show how the ecology and intrinsic attributes of organisms select for each of these strategies, and how a handful of straightforward concepts explain the evolution of successful decision rules in behavioural interactions, whether among members of the same or different species. With a broad focus ranging from microorganisms to humans, this is the first book to provide students and researchers with a comprehensive account of the evolution of sociality by natural selection
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316460252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Resource (xix, 346 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Globalisierung ; Human ecology / History ; Material culture ; Globalization / History ; Materialismus ; Geschichtstheorie ; Humanökologie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Geschichtstheorie ; Materialismus ; Humanökologie
    Abstract: New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold, new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organisms and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural. Timothy J. LeCain combines cutting-edge theory and detailed empirical analysis to explain the extraordinary late-nineteenth century convergence between the United States and Japan at the pivotal moment when both were emerging as global superpowers. Illustrating the power of a deeply material social and cultural history, The Matter of History argues that three powerful things - cattle, silkworms, and copper - helped to drive these previously diverse nations towards a global 'Great Convergence'
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)
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    Keywords: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 ; Social evolution ; Sociology ; Natural selection ; Natürliche Auslese ; Soziale Evolution ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Soziologie ; Soziale Differenzierung ; Neodarwinismus ; Neodarwinismus ; Soziale Evolution ; Natürliche Auslese ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Soziale Differenzierung ; Soziologie
    Abstract: In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting levels of heritable variation and competitive selection - the biological, the cultural, and the social. The implications which this carries for a reformulation of the traditional agenda of comparative and historical sociology are explored with the help of selected examples, and located within the context of current debates about sociological theory and practice. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times, from one of the world's leading social theorists
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue : the Darwinian legacy -- The neo-Darwinian paradigm -- Natural selection and evoked behaviour -- Cultural selection and acquired behaviour -- Social selection and imposed behaviour -- Selectionist theory as narrative history -- Epilogue : sociology in a post-Darwinian world
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511752407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human behavior ; Social evolution ; Social psychology ; Human biology / Social aspects ; Humanethologie ; Humanethologie
    Abstract: Biology and Freedom, first published in 1989, is an essay on human nature: an attempt to make a just assessment of a species often presented as predominantly and unavoidably violent, grasping, selfish and stupid. Likening human beings to animals is a traditional method of influencing attitudes on morals and politics. But in this book Professor Barnett shows that modern ethology, experimental psychology, genetics and evolutionary theory give the now fashionable misanthropy no authentic support. In doing so he asks whether the theory of evolution has any bearing on Machiavellianism in politics or the concept of original sin; and whether laboratory experiments on the effects of reward and punishment tell us anything about the enigma of free will. Combining the findings of biology with logic and humour, Professor Barnett gives a lucid alternative portrait of humanity in which he stresses the questions that the complexities of human existence will raise long after current myths have faded. This book is for all interested in human nature and the future of human society
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