Sentences with phrase «about cultural evolution»

The net weight of contradiction moved most anthropologists to discard their theories about cultural evolution.

One need not accept the strong statements that some theorists have made about cultural evolution (let alone «sociobiological» evolution) to find value in theories that have tried to organize what we know about historical development according to some broad evolutionary schema.

Not exact matches

The industry's resulting cultural evolution is in part what the proposed rule hoped to bring about, Waldert said.

The recent work of German sociologist Jurgen Habermas, in which questions about the formal characteristics of social systems in general and the dynamics of the lifeworld are the focus, exhibits a clear preference for deductive theory of a prescriptive sort.13 Habermas has drawn eclectically from modernization theory and Marxism to create what he calls a reconstructive model of cultural evolution.

I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.

After we had written a book on niche construction, I started to think about how the cultural evolution work and the niche construction work would interact.

If it followed the same path, perhaps that tells us something profound about human cultural evolution.

These findings raise questions about the evolution of our own cultural behavior and the extent to which chimpanzee and human cultures rely on the same social and cognitive processes.

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Cultural evolution is not rapidly enough reducing this discounting by distance (caring less about situations the further away they are).

Andy == > It seems that churches and religion are not subjects with which you have a lot of first hand / hands on experience — more like something you have always «studied about» from some perspective outside of the field itself — viewed always through the lens of cultural psychology or cultural evolution.