Sentences with phrase «cultural evolution based»

Several scholars have suggested a number of major stages in psycho - cultural evolution based on shifts in communication:

Not exact matches

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.

«Had Spore lived up to the publicity that it was a game based on evolution, then there would have been biological reproduction, families, and the basis for much of what cultural anthropology studies.

Explanations in the first category are based on unique aspects of human life history, such as intelligence, social organization, and cultural transfer that allowed the evolution of longevity [45]--[51].

More formally known as «Model - based Approaches to Biological and Cultural Evolution,» the program is informally called «IPEM», which stands for IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling.

Dr. Hardy posits that, based on archaeologic, anthropologic, genetic, and physiologic data, it was actually the coevolution of cultural use of fire, cooked starch, and salivary / pancreatic amylase that afforded the brain the capacity for a quantum leap in evolution.

First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.

His vision as a sculptor is based on observation and experience both in terms of ideas; drawn upon his early scientific background and his extensive knowledge of the history of cultural evolution, together with his visual and tactile ability to respond to the forms in his sculptures while in the process of making them.

Perhaps the fire frequency was a function of population density, cultural practices innovations, or other human - based factors that had nothing to do with temperature, such as war, peace, displacement, entrenchment, food preference shifts, food availability changes, evolution in customs, advances in ecological knowledge, population growth, etc..

Development path - An evolution based on an array of technological, economic, social, institutional, cultural and biophysical characteristics that determine the interactions between human and natural systems, including production and consumption patterns in all countries, over time at a particular scale.