Sentences with phrase «of cultural evolution»

When one studies the history of cultural evolution and the changes that have been wrought in the church, the parallels are striking.

This argument carries the principle of cultural evolution all down the line of natural entities from the human and the rest of the living world to entities such as electrons.

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.

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.

The authors say it's one of the most complex and rapid patterns of cultural evolution across a region ever observed in a nonhuman species.

Affiliations Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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.

At times it appears that each theorist regards religious evolution, like other dimensions of cultural evolution, as resulting from its own internal dynamics.

Habermas distinguishes four stages of cultural evolution: neolithic, archaic, developed, and modern.

Science and its transformation of the world is an outstanding example of cultural evolution.

A long - standing debate in the field of cultural evolution has revolved around the question of how and why human societies become more hierarchical.

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.

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.

In 2004 anthropologist Joseph Henrich used a mathematical model of cultural evolution to tackle this mystery [pdf].

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.

From the very first spear to nuclear bombs, deadly weapons have directed the course of our cultural evolution

Although he believes that the general patterns of cultural evolution are internally determined, he observes that other aspects of social structure are likely to be particularly influential during the transition from one general phase to another.

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Longmann writes, «Through a process of cultural evolution, societies that adopted this particular social system ¯ which involves far more than simple male domination ¯ maximized their population and therefore their power, whereas those that didn't were either overrun or absorbed.

Elman R. Service (1975) Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution.

«These results reveal how social and political factors, far from being secondary to the process of cultural evolution, are among its most important drivers.»

The Plank series takes abstract ideas about the history of cultural evolution and roots them in these cabinets.