The Kin Composition of Social Groups: Trading Group
... for each combination of parameter values. As in Avilés et al. (2002), we evaluated the relative contribution of each of the parameters to the overall variance by calculating Type I sums of squares (terms introduced in the same order as in Avilés et al. 2002). We conducted separate analyses for eac ...
... for each combination of parameter values. As in Avilés et al. (2002), we evaluated the relative contribution of each of the parameters to the overall variance by calculating Type I sums of squares (terms introduced in the same order as in Avilés et al. 2002). We conducted separate analyses for eac ...
"Genes, Memes and Demes," Biology and Philosophy 3:179
... scientists may be expedient for individuating conceptual systems and Hull uses the typespecimen method borrowed from biological systematics to exploit that expediency, but credit is conferred or denied in virtue of the value of particular ideas, not because it is "sociable" to do so (see Latour and ...
... scientists may be expedient for individuating conceptual systems and Hull uses the typespecimen method borrowed from biological systematics to exploit that expediency, but credit is conferred or denied in virtue of the value of particular ideas, not because it is "sociable" to do so (see Latour and ...
5. Change is Central to Sociology
... incorporated a strong sense of human progress and elaborated corresponding typologies of the evolutionary development of society, for example, suggesting that there has been a transition from more simple to complex social structures. In this way, these early sociologists sought to establish the dire ...
... incorporated a strong sense of human progress and elaborated corresponding typologies of the evolutionary development of society, for example, suggesting that there has been a transition from more simple to complex social structures. In this way, these early sociologists sought to establish the dire ...
Biological Aging: Active and Passive Mechanisms Compared
... mechanisms can be expected to vary between species just as evolved mechanisms that provide for vision, digestion, or mobility vary between species. The generic deteriorative processes may be harnessed in implementing a life span management system. The first formal proposal of an active aging mechani ...
... mechanisms can be expected to vary between species just as evolved mechanisms that provide for vision, digestion, or mobility vary between species. The generic deteriorative processes may be harnessed in implementing a life span management system. The first formal proposal of an active aging mechani ...
Ch. 15 Completed Notes and Vocabulary
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Selection and Evolution with a Deck of Cards
... variation present in a population for a particular trait that is due to the additive effects of alleles; it is the proportion of trait variation that can respond to natural selection. For example, if the heritability of beak size in a population of birds is 0.80, we can say that 80 percent of the ob ...
... variation present in a population for a particular trait that is due to the additive effects of alleles; it is the proportion of trait variation that can respond to natural selection. For example, if the heritability of beak size in a population of birds is 0.80, we can say that 80 percent of the ob ...
From Who am I to When am I?: Framing the Time and Shape of the
... of the state and social movements, or the individual and the transcendental, for example. Each of these views has a perspective of the world ‘out there’ in which the future can be known. In the predictive, the universe is by and large stable, with discernible laws. In the interpretive, there might b ...
... of the state and social movements, or the individual and the transcendental, for example. Each of these views has a perspective of the world ‘out there’ in which the future can be known. In the predictive, the universe is by and large stable, with discernible laws. In the interpretive, there might b ...
indexto PR enti C ehallbiolog Y ( M ille R )
... Ethical issues in genetic engineering are discussed. Evolution unites all of biology and makes useful predictions. Evolution can explain the diversity of life seen on earth. ...
... Ethical issues in genetic engineering are discussed. Evolution unites all of biology and makes useful predictions. Evolution can explain the diversity of life seen on earth. ...
Society as experiment: sociological foundations for a self
... on the laboratory ideal of the natural sciences is conceivable, thus making it possible to develop a foundation for a notion of a self-experimental society and to shed light on the role of sociology. This notion of experiment will be informed by and developed on the basis of the thought of North Ame ...
... on the laboratory ideal of the natural sciences is conceivable, thus making it possible to develop a foundation for a notion of a self-experimental society and to shed light on the role of sociology. This notion of experiment will be informed by and developed on the basis of the thought of North Ame ...
Atomism, epigenesis, preformation and preexistence: a clarification
... embryogenesis. God does so by using the male and female as instrumental causes for generation (Harvey, 1651, transl. by Whitteridge, 1981: 234) and the soul of the fertilized egg as a guiding principle (Harvey, 1651, transl. by Whitteridge, 1981: 139, 216-217) residing in the blood (Harvey, 1651, tr ...
... embryogenesis. God does so by using the male and female as instrumental causes for generation (Harvey, 1651, transl. by Whitteridge, 1981: 234) and the soul of the fertilized egg as a guiding principle (Harvey, 1651, transl. by Whitteridge, 1981: 139, 216-217) residing in the blood (Harvey, 1651, tr ...
EVOLUTION - Carol Lee Lab - University of Wisconsin
... and was struck by the bold, terrestrial mockingbird. • The bird is known today as Mimus melanotis, the San Cristóbal Mockingbird. Over the next 6 weeks that Darwin spent in the Galápagos, he observed mockingbirds on three other islands. • Darwin noticed the mockingbirds differed between islands. Nic ...
... and was struck by the bold, terrestrial mockingbird. • The bird is known today as Mimus melanotis, the San Cristóbal Mockingbird. Over the next 6 weeks that Darwin spent in the Galápagos, he observed mockingbirds on three other islands. • Darwin noticed the mockingbirds differed between islands. Nic ...
POSSIBLE LARGEST-SCALE TRENDS IN ORGANISMAL
... the clade’s entropy (in the informational sense) over time and satisfying the demands of the second law. More simply (although less precisely), the second law predicts that divergence will occur, even without selection. A parallel argument could be made at the scale of organisms. If the axes define ...
... the clade’s entropy (in the informational sense) over time and satisfying the demands of the second law. More simply (although less precisely), the second law predicts that divergence will occur, even without selection. A parallel argument could be made at the scale of organisms. If the axes define ...
The Theory of Functional Differentiation and the History of Modern
... approach (1987-2003). He conceptualises the economy, social inequality, politics and culture as four distinctive and differentiated fields of German society. Historians tend to argue that such a simplifying and static arrangement is necessary in order to reduce the dizzying complexity of past societ ...
... approach (1987-2003). He conceptualises the economy, social inequality, politics and culture as four distinctive and differentiated fields of German society. Historians tend to argue that such a simplifying and static arrangement is necessary in order to reduce the dizzying complexity of past societ ...
SAJP 26(2).vp - Danie Strauss
... for the better or worse – a consequence taken seriously indeed by Darwin in 1859. Therefore a physical understanding of the universe may serve Darwin‘s theory of natural selection and adaptation in the sense that the random nature of this mechanism causes changes,8 but cannot result in any purposefu ...
... for the better or worse – a consequence taken seriously indeed by Darwin in 1859. Therefore a physical understanding of the universe may serve Darwin‘s theory of natural selection and adaptation in the sense that the random nature of this mechanism causes changes,8 but cannot result in any purposefu ...
What the Biological Sciences Can and Cannot - Philsci
... People have moral values; that is, they accept standards according to which their conduct is judged either right or wrong, good or evil. The particular norms by which moral actions are judged vary to some extent from individual to individual, and from culture to culture (although some norms, like no ...
... People have moral values; that is, they accept standards according to which their conduct is judged either right or wrong, good or evil. The particular norms by which moral actions are judged vary to some extent from individual to individual, and from culture to culture (although some norms, like no ...
Darwin`s Theory of Evolution The Puzzle of Life`s
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The biological evolution of guilt, shame and anxiety: A
... Although built in by biological evolution, guilt, shame and anxiety are triggered and shaped by experiences beginning in childhood and continuing with intensity at least through adolescence. As an aspect of our social instincts, they are innate and the environment inevitably elicits and directs thei ...
... Although built in by biological evolution, guilt, shame and anxiety are triggered and shaped by experiences beginning in childhood and continuing with intensity at least through adolescence. As an aspect of our social instincts, they are innate and the environment inevitably elicits and directs thei ...
Thorstein Veblen`s Economics and Darwinian Evolutionary Social
... played an important role in closing the gap that persisted for years between evolutionary biology and human behavioral sciences. The popularity of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976) and the rise of “evolutionary psychology” in the 1980s, which sees ...
... played an important role in closing the gap that persisted for years between evolutionary biology and human behavioral sciences. The popularity of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976) and the rise of “evolutionary psychology” in the 1980s, which sees ...
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution The Puzzle of Life’s
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Pioneers of social theory 22 The classic period of sociology
... theories are, however, connected into larger theoretical frameworks that try to grasp the most general features of social life as a whole. It is these theories that we will look at in this chapter. We will outline the key ideas of the main theorists, and we will show how their ideas are related to t ...
... theories are, however, connected into larger theoretical frameworks that try to grasp the most general features of social life as a whole. It is these theories that we will look at in this chapter. We will outline the key ideas of the main theorists, and we will show how their ideas are related to t ...
Essays on Origins - Lutheran Science Institute
... The origin of this booklet on origins may be traced back to a breakfast meeting in St. Louis in the Spring of 1993 when I agreed to write a series of 12 articles on the creation/evolution controversy for a local Christian newspaper, the St. Louis Metrovoice. Overcoming an almost terminal case of "wr ...
... The origin of this booklet on origins may be traced back to a breakfast meeting in St. Louis in the Spring of 1993 when I agreed to write a series of 12 articles on the creation/evolution controversy for a local Christian newspaper, the St. Louis Metrovoice. Overcoming an almost terminal case of "wr ...
The Evolution of Aging Theories: Why Modern
... Williams’ 1957 proposal was that pleiotropy would create a permanent inter-trait linkage that would last for all of evolutionary time (~3.8 billion years) or at least the period since emergence of complex senescing organisms, and used this idea in support of his non-adaptive aging theory [14] that c ...
... Williams’ 1957 proposal was that pleiotropy would create a permanent inter-trait linkage that would last for all of evolutionary time (~3.8 billion years) or at least the period since emergence of complex senescing organisms, and used this idea in support of his non-adaptive aging theory [14] that c ...
Fulltext PDF - Indian Academy of Sciences
... addressed by Gould (2002) himself in his last book, are apparent in the writings of rivals elaborating the theory of evolution (e.g. Smith 1992), and are part of the collective consciousness of contemporary practicing biologists (see, e.g. Briggs 2002; Fortey 2002; Wake 2002). It is well known that ...
... addressed by Gould (2002) himself in his last book, are apparent in the writings of rivals elaborating the theory of evolution (e.g. Smith 1992), and are part of the collective consciousness of contemporary practicing biologists (see, e.g. Briggs 2002; Fortey 2002; Wake 2002). It is well known that ...
The Incorporation of Symbolic Inequality - Der WWW2
... consider all of them to be components of symbolically mediated practice. The term ’symbol’ refers to Ernst Cassirer’s (1997) interpretation of humanly produced entities as imbued with meaning. The term ’practice’ refers to the processes within the human realm. From this perspective, all symbols are ...
... consider all of them to be components of symbolically mediated practice. The term ’symbol’ refers to Ernst Cassirer’s (1997) interpretation of humanly produced entities as imbued with meaning. The term ’practice’ refers to the processes within the human realm. From this perspective, all symbols are ...
Sociocultural evolution
Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or cultural evolution are theories of cultural and social evolution that describe how cultures and societies change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any seemingly significant changes in complexity (cladogenesis). Sociocultural evolution is ""the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure which is qualitatively different from the ancestral form"".(Note, this article focusses on that use of the term 'socio-cultural evolution' to refer to work that is not in line with contemporary understandings of the word 'evolution'. There is a separate body of academic work which uses the term 'cultural evolution' using a more consensus Darwinian understanding of the term 'evolution'. For a description of this work, based in the foundational work of DT Campbell in the 1960s and followed up by Boyd, Richerson, Cvalli-Sforza, and Feldman in the 1980s, go to Cultural evolution or Dual inheritance theory.)Most 19th-century and some 20th-century approaches to socioculture aimed to provide models for the evolution of humankind as a whole, arguing that different societies have reached different stages of social development. The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of socio-cultural systems, the work of Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), operated on a scale which included a theory of world history. Another attempt, on a less systematic scale, originated with the world-systems approach.More recent approaches focus on changes specific to individual societies and reject the idea that cultures differ primarily according to how far each one is on the linear scale of social progress. Most modern archaeologists and cultural anthropologists work within the frameworks of neoevolutionism, sociobiology and modernization theory.Many different societies have existed in the course of human history, with estimates as high as over one million separate societies; however, as of 2013, only about two hundred or so different societies survive.