1 The Enlightenment and the development of social theory
... social theorists are not still of importance in understanding contemporary times. It follows that in situating social theory according to the context of its production, theorists are not viewed as disembodied from their theories, but implicated in their production through addressing the problematics ...
... social theorists are not still of importance in understanding contemporary times. It follows that in situating social theory according to the context of its production, theorists are not viewed as disembodied from their theories, but implicated in their production through addressing the problematics ...
HAMILTON`S FORCES OF NATURAL SELECTION AFTER FORTY
... the shifting of the transition ages between development, aging, and late life. For these reasons, evolutionary research on the demographic features of life history should be referred to as “Hamiltonian.” ...
... the shifting of the transition ages between development, aging, and late life. For these reasons, evolutionary research on the demographic features of life history should be referred to as “Hamiltonian.” ...
this PDF file - Reports of the National Center for Science
... Lamarckian perspective should be taken into account in biology in order to produce a new evolutionary synthesis that would describe and explain the biological world better than the classical theory of evolution (that is, the Modern Synthesis). As conveyed by the title, Lamarckism includes very diffe ...
... Lamarckian perspective should be taken into account in biology in order to produce a new evolutionary synthesis that would describe and explain the biological world better than the classical theory of evolution (that is, the Modern Synthesis). As conveyed by the title, Lamarckism includes very diffe ...
Week Two
... tradition Values - represents the normative and behavioral dimensions ◦ Instrumental: does not affect social institutions fundamentally. Rather innovation is made to serve tradition ◦ Consummatory: every aspect of society is a part of an elaborately sustained, high-solidarity structure in which reli ...
... tradition Values - represents the normative and behavioral dimensions ◦ Instrumental: does not affect social institutions fundamentally. Rather innovation is made to serve tradition ◦ Consummatory: every aspect of society is a part of an elaborately sustained, high-solidarity structure in which reli ...
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and the role of soft inheritance
... Proximate and Ultimate causation ...
... Proximate and Ultimate causation ...
Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity
... Though the anatomical capacity for language was present by this time (Wynn, 1998), verbal communication is thought to have been limited to (at best) pre-syntactical proto-language (Dunbar, 1996). Additionally, while humans may have for the first time been capable of representing an idea once the obj ...
... Though the anatomical capacity for language was present by this time (Wynn, 1998), verbal communication is thought to have been limited to (at best) pre-syntactical proto-language (Dunbar, 1996). Additionally, while humans may have for the first time been capable of representing an idea once the obj ...
The Life of David Lack: Father of Evolutionary Ecology
... Most instructors who teach about the theory of evolution will be familiar with the ornithologist David Lack, due to the often reproduced images of the beak sizes and shapes of the Galápagos finches. His classic work from which the illustrations derive, Darwin’s Finches (1947a), stands as one of the ...
... Most instructors who teach about the theory of evolution will be familiar with the ornithologist David Lack, due to the often reproduced images of the beak sizes and shapes of the Galápagos finches. His classic work from which the illustrations derive, Darwin’s Finches (1947a), stands as one of the ...
Lecture 3
... selection soon after his return in 1836, but was reluctant to publish, until spurred to do so by hearing that A.R. Wallace (1822-1903), a naturalist/collector working in Indonesia, had come up with similar ideas. • On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection was first published in 1859, and shook ...
... selection soon after his return in 1836, but was reluctant to publish, until spurred to do so by hearing that A.R. Wallace (1822-1903), a naturalist/collector working in Indonesia, had come up with similar ideas. • On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection was first published in 1859, and shook ...
Life Changes - Miami Museum of Science
... on their evolutionary histories. They only gives names to branches of the tree of life—groupings called clades. Since birds evolved from dinosaurs, there’s just no way to clip a single branch from the tree above that includes Triceratops and T. rex, but excludes birds. That means that birds are on t ...
... on their evolutionary histories. They only gives names to branches of the tree of life—groupings called clades. Since birds evolved from dinosaurs, there’s just no way to clip a single branch from the tree above that includes Triceratops and T. rex, but excludes birds. That means that birds are on t ...
10 Vocabulary Practice
... C. Do-It Yourself Matching In a random order, write short definitions for each term on the blank lines to the right. Then give your paper to a classmate who should write the number of the term next to the correct definition. ...
... C. Do-It Yourself Matching In a random order, write short definitions for each term on the blank lines to the right. Then give your paper to a classmate who should write the number of the term next to the correct definition. ...
Evolutionary rescue under environmental change?
... such as through phenotypic plasticity, maternal effects, or various other non-genetic phenotypic alterations (Bonduriansky and Day 2009; Pigluicci 2001, see also Chapter 11). Although these developmental changes (henceforth just ‘plasticity’) can be a particularly rapid way to recover fitness follow ...
... such as through phenotypic plasticity, maternal effects, or various other non-genetic phenotypic alterations (Bonduriansky and Day 2009; Pigluicci 2001, see also Chapter 11). Although these developmental changes (henceforth just ‘plasticity’) can be a particularly rapid way to recover fitness follow ...
CSGP 07/2 - Trent University
... In order to further deepen this analysis, it would be necessary to examine the nature of the symbolic systems operating in this particular social system (e.g. values, beliefs and professional standards held by members; the organizational “culture”). The basic point here is to stress that symbolic s ...
... In order to further deepen this analysis, it would be necessary to examine the nature of the symbolic systems operating in this particular social system (e.g. values, beliefs and professional standards held by members; the organizational “culture”). The basic point here is to stress that symbolic s ...
Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
... to the regional analysis of ethnohistoric settlement systems (Smith 1976) or to prehistoric societies (Steponaitis 1978), or to use rank-size correlation as a measure of the emergence of centralized political authority (Johnson 1981). Underlying this work in archaeology there is an attempt to find a ...
... to the regional analysis of ethnohistoric settlement systems (Smith 1976) or to prehistoric societies (Steponaitis 1978), or to use rank-size correlation as a measure of the emergence of centralized political authority (Johnson 1981). Underlying this work in archaeology there is an attempt to find a ...
Eugenic
... Applied Darwinian science to heredity and “good birth”. The need for eugenics to save society from "inferior" minds In Darwin’s Descent of Man he states, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throug ...
... Applied Darwinian science to heredity and “good birth”. The need for eugenics to save society from "inferior" minds In Darwin’s Descent of Man he states, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throug ...
Competing Explanations of Global Evils: Theodicy, Social Sciences
... cosmology for explaining the nature of evil in the social world, I consider that the mythical nature of this cosmology remains the same: stories on origins become rationalized, but they remain as basic myths on origins; explanations of evil change focus, but they remain theodicies (in their seculari ...
... cosmology for explaining the nature of evil in the social world, I consider that the mythical nature of this cosmology remains the same: stories on origins become rationalized, but they remain as basic myths on origins; explanations of evil change focus, but they remain theodicies (in their seculari ...
FairchildN0812 - ScholarWorks
... educational attainment predicts greater rejection of evolution. This study also showed significant differences in many demographics, from gender and race to religion and political ideology. The best predictor of pro-creationism views was education, showing that people with some college or just high ...
... educational attainment predicts greater rejection of evolution. This study also showed significant differences in many demographics, from gender and race to religion and political ideology. The best predictor of pro-creationism views was education, showing that people with some college or just high ...
Recent Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic Change
... Hodgson, and Giovanni Dosi, my close partners in developing evolutionary economic theory, gave helpful comments on an earlier draft. So did more than three score other scholars to whom I sent out a copy. I thank them all, and hold them blameless for the result. ...
... Hodgson, and Giovanni Dosi, my close partners in developing evolutionary economic theory, gave helpful comments on an earlier draft. So did more than three score other scholars to whom I sent out a copy. I thank them all, and hold them blameless for the result. ...
Is evolution fundamental when it comes to defining biological
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
Darwinian medicine - The Rose, Mueller, and Greer Laboratories
... considerations from such fields as population ideas of Darwinian medicine to the everyday genetics, quantitative genetics, and molecular practice of medicine,2 but it is not clear how evolution. In many cases, to proceed without successful this will be, in general. Many of the employing the tools of ...
... considerations from such fields as population ideas of Darwinian medicine to the everyday genetics, quantitative genetics, and molecular practice of medicine,2 but it is not clear how evolution. In many cases, to proceed without successful this will be, in general. Many of the employing the tools of ...
- roar@UEL - University of East London
... information to be inherited across generations. But, there is a great deal of variation in epigenetic mechanisms. They are present in many taxa and multiple epigenetic mechanisms are proposed to affect development and disease; including DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNA. The ...
... information to be inherited across generations. But, there is a great deal of variation in epigenetic mechanisms. They are present in many taxa and multiple epigenetic mechanisms are proposed to affect development and disease; including DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNA. The ...
Darwin`s Theory of Evolution The Puzzle of Life`s Diversity Chapter
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... http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/6234/files/tail_HumanTail.gif ...
Evolution Test Study Guide
... still do not have a complete understanding required for application I recognize the evidence that supports evolution but still do not have a complete understanding required for application I recognize that there is a difference between homologous and analogous structures but still do not have a comp ...
... still do not have a complete understanding required for application I recognize the evidence that supports evolution but still do not have a complete understanding required for application I recognize that there is a difference between homologous and analogous structures but still do not have a comp ...
Why Do Animals Survive or Die?
... Sports teams and stores on the street are both excellent examples of natural selection, even though it may not seem like it at first! You may think that some scientist came up with some very complicated and hard to understand theory, but natural selection is actually the simplest explanation of what ...
... Sports teams and stores on the street are both excellent examples of natural selection, even though it may not seem like it at first! You may think that some scientist came up with some very complicated and hard to understand theory, but natural selection is actually the simplest explanation of what ...
Sciences Philosophy of the Social
... and studying neglected intersections (Crenshaw 1991). This is intended to analyse groups at the point of intersection, e.g. female, African-American, working class. It is often associated with the use of case study, ethnographic and narrative methods of enquiry (e.g. Prins 2006). McCall (2005) in he ...
... and studying neglected intersections (Crenshaw 1991). This is intended to analyse groups at the point of intersection, e.g. female, African-American, working class. It is often associated with the use of case study, ethnographic and narrative methods of enquiry (e.g. Prins 2006). McCall (2005) in he ...
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.