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Structure and Contingency - Evolutionary Processes in Life and Human Society (Paperback) Loot Price: R4,317
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Structure and Contingency - Evolutionary Processes in Life and Human Society (Paperback): John Bintliff

Structure and Contingency - Evolutionary Processes in Life and Human Society (Paperback)

John Bintliff; Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould

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The theme of this book is the appropriate methodology for the study of the history of life on earth. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between form and structure: the things that we might predict and model and the things we cannot predict -- the arbitrary and the contingent -- which may be as important, or even more important, than the way in which life on earth has evolved.

The contributors are drawn from palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology and human evolution; the timescales covered are from the development of life on earth, through human evolution to later prehistory and historic archaeology. Underpinning the theme of the book is the work of Stephen Jay Gould, who has developed a distinctive philosophy of history concerning the nature of long-term and short-term evolutionary processes, particularly stressing the interplay between structure and contingency.

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Imprint: Leicester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 1999
First published: March 1999
Editors: John Bintliff
Introduction by: Stephen Jay Gould
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-0-7185-0026-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > Early man
Books > History > World history > General
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LSN: 0-7185-0026-1
Barcode: 9780718500269

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