Sentences with phrase «for cultural evolution»

An intergenerational transmission model for the cultural evolution of helping behavior.

«But if resources are abundant, environmental change can provide fertile ground for cultural evolution,» meaning change.

So I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it.

Not exact matches

4) Evolution as a metaphor for the ability of believers (both collectively and individually) to adapt to cultural change.

Burhoe's point is that if cultural evolution is the subject for discussion, then the religious traditions whose wisdom has survived millennia of selective pressures can be left out of the discussion only at the cost of scientific adequacy and competency.

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 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.

For five hundred years we have lived, through all the cultural triumphs and glories of mankind, in an age of the increasing evolution of the Mystery of Iniquity - the military rebellion, so to speak, against the Lordship of Christ.

Over the course of cultural evolution, due to an impotence at the heart of the will and to recurrent failures in ever - renewed struggles for ascendency, human will to power lost its good cheer and creatively turned against itself.

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.

I have slightly improved the thrust of this quotation: Whitehead actually (somewhat embarrassingly) claims that the «struggle for existence gives no hint why there should be cities» even though Hobbes» social theory provides just such an account, illustrating that cultural change and even transformation per se has necessarily little to do with the issue of evolution.

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.

For instance, Habermas pays more explicit attention to economic development and to the state, credits the social sciences with a more prominent role in cultural evolution, and stresses secular procedures as elements of legitimation rather than emphasizing sacred or religious values.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

«We believe that we can not afford to waste away the cultural heritage of the Yoruba people and we are to start from a platform where it moves away from economic integration to socio, political and also cultural evolution of what we think the Yoruba people stand for and that is also what I stand for.

The finding that fathers are hardwired to care for children adds to previous cultural models of human evolution, which traditionally depict the mother as being hardwired for hands - on child care.

Health deteriorates when cultural evolution becomes the driver and certain adaptations, like an ingrained taste for sweets, become mismatches.

«But our study demonstrates that nonhuman animals can accumulate knowledge and improve performance over generations, satisfying the criteria for cumulative cultural evolution,» Sasaki says.

The EES has gotten pushback from many biologists who think that things like cultural evolution and niche construction are already accounted for in evolutionary theory, and that therefore the EES is unnecessary.

And both humans and animals direct their evolution through the social and cultural environments they construct for themselves — a phenomenon Feldman thinks is not well reflected in the modern synthesis.

«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.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

The current political and cultural context drive the nation's denialism around climate change, evolution and vaccines, said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, during a session.

As for the role of population size in spurring our evolution, he and Wang had not given it much thought, but they saw the idea as complementary to their own view, since cultural innovations allowed more people to survive.

What happens next is «a question for our values, not science», says Fine, arguing for a world where cultural and gender norms sit with evolution, genetics and hormones to take account of all the influences.

It's hard to say what is selecting for these traits, and to discern whether they are being passed down through the women's genes, but because Stearns controlled for many social and cultural factors, it is likely that his results document genetic, rather than cultural evolution at work.

«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential cultural and biological interactions between these two human groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»

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.

Ongoing projects examine the paleoenvironmental context for human evolution and cultural development, reconstructing ancient rivers and lakes, dating geological formations, and attempting to understand the role that climate change had in producing new species and stone - tool cultures.

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.

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.

With a knack for finding the humor in the quirks of the American cultural landscape, Hughes takes us on a tour from the Mall of America in Minneapolis to what he calls the «maul» of America - Custer's last stand - stopping at road - sides and discoursing on sandwiches, the shape of cowboy hats, the evolution of barn roofs, the 28.99 wording of jokes, the wearing of moustaches, and, of course, the telling features from tepees of different tribes.

Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Art, Design and Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon, Liberty Street Gallery the World Financial Center, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Art & Architecture, Miami, COCA / Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

He became socially and politically active during the 1970s and wrote that he focused on buildings, «for these comprise both a miniature cultural evolution and a model of prevailing social structures.

Store X is a new platform for cultural expression and exchange, and an evolution of record label, print press and online magazine The Vinyl Factory, hoping to support and bring together a creative community for shared experiences.

Kara Walker's work is well known for the incisive connections it draws between the legacy of slavery in the United States, the evolution of historical narratives and cultural beliefs, and contemporary race relations.

Alongside contributions from the residency artists, this event invited Las Vegas - resident artists, curators, cultural policy - makers and business - people to discuss the current arts scene in Las Vegas, and map out possibilities for its evolution as a cultural and creative centre.

In this exhibition, New Peace takes form through the imagined - trappings of a cult that worships matter and believes that reality and its cosmic, biological, and cultural evolutions exist to create the greatest variation of form possible in the universe, and for matter to experience all variations of itself.

If you had taken the trouble to read the all the post, you would see that the mechanisms of how innate skepticism detects collective deception, or incorrectly triggers on characteristics that are not indicative of collective deception, are completely independent of what the topics at issue are (i.e. work the same for any), and indeed these detection mechanisms are framed using principles that themselves stem from evolution / cultural evolution (so not from contested topic domains such as CC etc. that I or anyone else agrees or disagrees with).

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.

I think that should be accurate to say that the human being is a complex social animal, we should not forget that through the stages of evolution and acculturation, the human being has faced cultural clichés that many times have been counterproductive for its manifestation through an authentic individual projection