Evolution of Cultural Entities
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2002
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780197262627
Publisert
2002-10-03
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
557 gr
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
234
Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether this comparison is 'just a metaphor', or whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.
The 'evolutionary paradigm of rationality' has a significant role to play throughout the human sciences, but raises complex issues in every cultural context where it is applied. By fostering discussion between scholars from a wide range of research traditions, this volume aims to influence the evolution of all of them.
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Since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection, and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.
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- Introduction: Selectionist Reasoning as a Tool of Thought
- Heritable Variation and Competitive Selection as the Mechanism of Sociocultural Evolution
- Between Development and Evolution: How to Model Cultural Change
- Between Evolution and History: Biology, Culture and the Myth of Human Origins
- An Integrating Scaffold: Toward an Autonomy-Theoretic Modelling of Cultural Change
- Culture
- Learning from Culture
- Choosing the Selectors
- Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics
- The Evolution of Technological Knowledge: Reflections on Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
- Idiosyncratic Production Regimes: Co-evolution of Economic and Legal Institutions in the Varieties of Capitalism
- The Evolution of Education: Change and Reform
- The Evolution of Merged Culture, Genes and Computing Artefacts
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197262627
Publisert
2002-10-03
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
557 gr
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
234