The Principles of Social EvolutionDispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution. |
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Page 134
... aspects of science , the pictorial arts , sculpture , drama , and sport , 24 and have generally provided mankind with larger purposes than those of immediate day - to - day survival . It is great mistake , then , to regard this type of ...
... aspects of science , the pictorial arts , sculpture , drama , and sport , 24 and have generally provided mankind with larger purposes than those of immediate day - to - day survival . It is great mistake , then , to regard this type of ...
Page 289
... aspects or variables that are of more importance than others . In the previous chapter we saw that for all societies descent , relative age , the relations between the sexes , rules of residence , authority and leadership , ritual ...
... aspects or variables that are of more importance than others . In the previous chapter we saw that for all societies descent , relative age , the relations between the sexes , rules of residence , authority and leadership , ritual ...
Page 375
... aspects of this ontogenetic process emphatically do not apply to social evolution . The first is the inevitable progression of the normal individual through the various stages of life : it is clear that social evolution is quite unlike ...
... aspects of this ontogenetic process emphatically do not apply to social evolution . The first is the inevitable progression of the normal individual through the various stages of life : it is clear that social evolution is quite unlike ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
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