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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