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The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution - The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022) Loot Price: R3,127
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The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution - The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Michael Rosenberg

The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution - The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

Michael Rosenberg

Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 12

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This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true entities bounded in time and space, and not ephemera in a constant state of becoming another system. Second, it examines how these entities interact to produce evolutionary culture change. It then argues that the intent of purposive behaviors is reliably knowable in the aggregate, at least when dealing with expressions of behavioral tendencies in the animal kingdom, humans included. Finally, the book references well documented behavioral tendencies for examples of proximate causation in the evolution of settled village societies and, following that, socially complex societies. Through these efforts, the book synthesizes the various approaches to the evolution of culture and provides a complete and comprehensive picture of the process. It provides a corrective to the tendency to view cultural systems as entirely open ended and as capable of changing in any direction; and also to treating cultural evolution as solely a result of selective forces, that is, in terms of only ultimate causation. This book provides an engaging and critical counterview to established theories of cultural evolution and is of interest to scholars and students of different disciplines, from anthropology and archeology, to evolutionary biology and epigenetics.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 12
Release date: July 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: Michael Rosenberg
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 203
Edition: 1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-104862-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
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LSN: 3-03-104862-8
Barcode: 9783031048623

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