Sentences with phrase «on cultural evolution»

Accordingly, the flux of writing has grown exponentially, with resulting impact on cultural evolution.

There's a vast literature on cultural evolution, and a more modest yet still sizeable one on memetics (more than I will live long enough to read!).

«It shows that inevitably, all composers play to the gallery, and I think it has underestimated the power that the gallery exerts on cultural evolution,» he says.

Not exact matches

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

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

«Because globalization as a culturally homogenizing and environment - devouring force is coming on so fast, there is a real danger that in just a few decades it could wipe out the ecological and cultural diversity that took millions of years of human and biological evolution to produce.»

Another form of this dualism is the commonly made claim that the evolutionary process continues on the human level with cultural evolution, which is totally distinct from biological evolution.

There is little doubt that the President's evolution on homosexuality probably impacted the evolution of cultural values.

(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion

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.

Thus, cultural evolution, while in the first instance arises from and is dependent on genetic or biological factors, must now be viewed principally as an «epigenetic» or emergent phenomena.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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].

Both cultural and genetic evolution worked together to help make us the most cooperative species on earth.

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.

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.

I have provided academic writing assistance to the students on various topics of this specific subject including Medical Anthropology: Local and Global Perspectives, Human Bodies, Culture & Society, Cultural Heritage Management, Human Evolution, Discovering Archeology and many more.

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.

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.

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.

The exhibition focuses on the evolution of five frequent themes in American art: money, land, politics, cultural exchange, and the modern world.

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).

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).

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.

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.