Sentences with phrase «cultural evolution by»

Not exact matches

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

The idea of cultural evolution, which is most clearly seen in humankind, is that humankind transmits information from one generation to another by teaching and learning so that successive generations learn to purpose their lives in particular ways.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

Indeed, Habermas's treatment of religion draws directly from Bellah, contributing to it mainly by recasting Bellah's efforts into a somewhat more explicitly elaborated view of cultural evolution.

Following T. Dobzhansky and F. Ayala, we may define the concepts of internal (or natural) and external (or artifactual) teleology as conceptually useful terms in describing causal features in biological and cultural evolution.9 Such a definition of internal and external teleology was recently summarized by Ayala as follows: 10

2 p.m. New York Times bestselling author and distinguished scholar Carole Boston Weatherford discusses how American history and cultural evolution is shaped by slavery, segregation and social justice.

Sag Harbor's third annual Cultural Heritage Weekend will focus on the evolution of a diverse community over three centuries through a variety of events and programs presented from tomorrow through Sunday by the member organizations of the Sag Harbor Cultural District.

Finally, national identity, the most symbolic aspect of sovereignty proudly brandished by right - wing populists, has largely been impacted by these supranational evolutions as well as by the cultural diversification of European societies.

In cultural evolution, convergent evolution is the development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with different ancestral cultures.

Education experts suggest that in some cultural contexts one way to encourage acceptance of evolution is by not shunning religious beliefs

Skepticism is the typical reaction: A curator at one prominent museum argued that art is far more likely to be influenced by cultural developments, such as the invention of photography or the rise of Impressionism, than by evolution.

A 15 - year odyssey, set between 1999 and the present day, Vox Lux tracks the important cultural evolutions of the 21st Century through Celeste's eyes, and the soundtrack will feature all original songs written by Grammy - nominated artist Sia.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

by Mahmoud El - Kati Papyrus Publishing Paperback, $ 12.00 214 pages ISBN: 978 -0-9675581-7-2 Book Review by Kam Williams «Throughout the cultural evolution of the United States, Black people have consistently contributed a huge stock of colorful words, phrases, sayings, phonics, and other linguistic devices, some of which were brought from Africa... Since the dawn of the 20th Century, descendants of Black folks have set the pace in the rise of popular American culture, leading every major point of departure in music, dance, and creation of the hip lifestyle.

Culture Clash: Evolution of An Expat by Benjamin Long is a story of hope, survival, and the human capacity to go beyond the boundaries of deep ‐ rooted cultural conditioning and self ‐ imposed limitations.

The popularity of given brands (defined by subscriptions) and given individual styles (defined by aggregated data on what all the Niko's wear) would seed a simple simulation of the cultural evolution of tastes that would determine the outfit of each civilian as he is spawned into the world.

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of groundbreaking alternative art and culture magazine Giant Robot, OMCA features the major exhibition, SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot featuring works by 15 contemporary artists who have been a part of the magazine's social and cultural evolution.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, featuring three newly commissioned essays that evaluate the cultural context of Ono's early years, and five sections reflecting her geographic locations during this period and the corresponding evolution of her artistic practice.

«Art, Design, and Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon,» World Financial Center, Liberty Street Gallery, New York City (Curated by Valerie Steele)

OMCA features the major exhibition, SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot featuring works by 15 contemporary artists who have been a part of the magazine's social and cultural evolution.

Cultural evolution is a process of accumulating adaptive behavior in individual brains and laboriously passing it on to each new generation by speech (remember, durable information storage only became available in the last 5ky).

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

The Vatican declares that evolution by natural selection is not incompatible with its teachings and that Intelligent Design is a «cultural phenomenon» rather than a scientific or theological one.

In particular, What if macroscopic evolution is not just another «a cultural consensus» imposed by like minded atheists / materialists who by definition preclude open science of testing it against the null hypothesis of known stochastic and chemical processes (as distinct from mutations causing microevolution)?

David L Hagan: What if macroscopic evolution is not just another «a cultural consensus» imposed by like minded atheists / materialists who by definition preclude open science of testing it against the null hypothesis of known stochastic and chemical processes (as distinct from mutations causing microevolution)?

By necessity, telecommunications must keep up with evolution, be it cultural or technological, and Dan presented to us the ways in which he has pioneered change at BT during his time there.

Contrary to human rights standards which proscribe discrimination and require protection of rights of indigenous peoples to practise and revitalise their cultural traditions [62], the majority's approach apparently dictates a historical search for an actual chain of evolution, under a range of destructive outside influences, to establish a link with «tradition» which may be of little significance to a community, whilst ignoring genuine assertions, or interpretations, of traditional laws and customs by the community itself.