Cosmopolitanism and Pancultural Universals: Our Common
... 4, it is argued that cultural theories should not be based entirely on the differences between (ethnic) cultures, national culture, or civilizations but should instead take into account both intra-cultural diversity and pan-cultural universals. This section also sets out some universals in world-vie ...
... 4, it is argued that cultural theories should not be based entirely on the differences between (ethnic) cultures, national culture, or civilizations but should instead take into account both intra-cultural diversity and pan-cultural universals. This section also sets out some universals in world-vie ...
SUSTAINABLE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS AND SCALABLE
... Sharing (SFS) is proposed to maintain topology search capability. For the representation issue in evolutionary synthesis, or more specifically the function set design problem of genetic programming, two modular set approaches are proposed to investigate the relationship between representation, evolv ...
... Sharing (SFS) is proposed to maintain topology search capability. For the representation issue in evolutionary synthesis, or more specifically the function set design problem of genetic programming, two modular set approaches are proposed to investigate the relationship between representation, evolv ...
Anthropology and Archaeology: A changing relationship
... two elements of the joint discipline are somewhat estranged. In Britain and elsewhere in Europe there has been a fluctuating relationship between the two, so that at the end of the last century, when an evolutionary scheme held sway, they were almost indistinguishable, but early in this century they ...
... two elements of the joint discipline are somewhat estranged. In Britain and elsewhere in Europe there has been a fluctuating relationship between the two, so that at the end of the last century, when an evolutionary scheme held sway, they were almost indistinguishable, but early in this century they ...
Soft and hard selection on plant defence traits in Arabidopsis thaliana
... can be local – for example, plant populations that are regulated within individual patches. At the other end of the spectrum, population regulation can be global – for example, plant populations that are regulated at the forest level containing several suitable patches. These two alternative modes o ...
... can be local – for example, plant populations that are regulated within individual patches. At the other end of the spectrum, population regulation can be global – for example, plant populations that are regulated at the forest level containing several suitable patches. These two alternative modes o ...
The Robust Australopithecines: Evidence for the genus Paranthropus
... actually chronologically primitive traits that are shared with the last common ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis. As well, thirteen out of sixteen derived characteristics that were common between KNM-WT 17000 and Paranthropus boisei were revealed to be present in other Australopithecine fossils ( ...
... actually chronologically primitive traits that are shared with the last common ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis. As well, thirteen out of sixteen derived characteristics that were common between KNM-WT 17000 and Paranthropus boisei were revealed to be present in other Australopithecine fossils ( ...
Postmodern Anth-the paper - Dallas Baptist University
... deconstructionism which, as postmodernism's main methodology, will be explained later on in this paper. It is also often called "post-structuralism" which Rosenau (1991: 1) believes may be distinguished from postmodernism on the basis "of emphasis more than substance: Post-modernists are more orient ...
... deconstructionism which, as postmodernism's main methodology, will be explained later on in this paper. It is also often called "post-structuralism" which Rosenau (1991: 1) believes may be distinguished from postmodernism on the basis "of emphasis more than substance: Post-modernists are more orient ...
A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by
... missing designer in the design of life-forms, a puzzle essentially resolved by Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Actually, two contractualist philosophers, John Rawls and David Gauthier, have argued that moral judgments are based on a sense of fairness that, they suggested, has been naturally se ...
... missing designer in the design of life-forms, a puzzle essentially resolved by Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Actually, two contractualist philosophers, John Rawls and David Gauthier, have argued that moral judgments are based on a sense of fairness that, they suggested, has been naturally se ...
Thesis - Paleoanthropology Society
... during the modeling process. He provided invaluable comments during the analysis and write-up, too. My frequent visits to his office were always relaxing, fun, and enlightening. In short, I don’t think I could have asked for a better advisor. Mary Stiner’s well-crafted and well-placed inquiries forc ...
... during the modeling process. He provided invaluable comments during the analysis and write-up, too. My frequent visits to his office were always relaxing, fun, and enlightening. In short, I don’t think I could have asked for a better advisor. Mary Stiner’s well-crafted and well-placed inquiries forc ...
Introduction to Post-Social Anthropology
... professors are not professional philosophers; our reading does not pretend at all to be a philosophical reading. We believe, nevertheless, that philosophical issues should always be explicated in anthropology courses. They are always acting in any case, and it is better to start by coming clean abou ...
... professors are not professional philosophers; our reading does not pretend at all to be a philosophical reading. We believe, nevertheless, that philosophical issues should always be explicated in anthropology courses. They are always acting in any case, and it is better to start by coming clean abou ...
Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis
... what will happen if the agents vary in their optimality. The link says that if agents vary in their optimality, then there is scope for selection, and the change in the frequency of any gene is given by the covariance between the frequency of that gene in an agent and the agent’s relative fitness. T ...
... what will happen if the agents vary in their optimality. The link says that if agents vary in their optimality, then there is scope for selection, and the change in the frequency of any gene is given by the covariance between the frequency of that gene in an agent and the agent’s relative fitness. T ...
Anthropology Course Catalog
... ANTH 20300 - Biological Bases Of Human Social Behavior: Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to human social behavior from the perspective of biological anthropology, with special emphasis on human evolution and non-human primates. Topics include aggression, communication, learning, ma ...
... ANTH 20300 - Biological Bases Of Human Social Behavior: Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to human social behavior from the perspective of biological anthropology, with special emphasis on human evolution and non-human primates. Topics include aggression, communication, learning, ma ...
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee : Apes, People, and Their
... The general estimate, which there is no good reason to doubt at present, is that about seven million years ago Homo, Pan, and Gorilla all comprised a single species. That species lived in Africa (which is, after all, where its descendants live), and probably resembled the chimpanzee. One group evolv ...
... The general estimate, which there is no good reason to doubt at present, is that about seven million years ago Homo, Pan, and Gorilla all comprised a single species. That species lived in Africa (which is, after all, where its descendants live), and probably resembled the chimpanzee. One group evolv ...
Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in
... anthropology is holistic means that it combines the study of human biology, history, and the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates anthropology from other academic disciplines, which generally focus on one factor ...
... anthropology is holistic means that it combines the study of human biology, history, and the learned and shared patterns of human behaviour and thought we call culture in order to analyze human groups. Holism separates anthropology from other academic disciplines, which generally focus on one factor ...
Philosophy of Social Science
... reason is simple. Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical ques tions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The sides scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they do address as answerable by science and the methods they ...
... reason is simple. Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical ques tions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The sides scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they do address as answerable by science and the methods they ...
Bibliography - University of South Australia
... concept (Nash 1990: 446), perhaps as a result of the somewhat opaque terminology used by Bourdieu in coining the term. In Bourdieu habitus operates as a ‘system of dispositions”, “a system of durably acquired schemes of perceptions of thought and action engendered by objective conditions but tending ...
... concept (Nash 1990: 446), perhaps as a result of the somewhat opaque terminology used by Bourdieu in coining the term. In Bourdieu habitus operates as a ‘system of dispositions”, “a system of durably acquired schemes of perceptions of thought and action engendered by objective conditions but tending ...
Introduction: ethnography and the mutualizing Utopia
... different from what Samuel Moyn described concerning the story of Human Rights: a utopia (2010) which is an acknowledgement that—so the slogan goes—‘another world is possible’. But this ‘other world’ can be a product of a desire for transformation as well as of nostalgic longing. This statement, we ...
... different from what Samuel Moyn described concerning the story of Human Rights: a utopia (2010) which is an acknowledgement that—so the slogan goes—‘another world is possible’. But this ‘other world’ can be a product of a desire for transformation as well as of nostalgic longing. This statement, we ...
Standard PDF - Wiley Online Library
... potentially conceive or rear more offspring than individuals that outbreed (Fig. 1C), for example, if avoiding inbreeding imposes direct costs of time, energy, or failure to mate (Keller and Arcese 1998; Kokko and Ots 2006), if optimal reproductive timing or location are correlated across relatives ...
... potentially conceive or rear more offspring than individuals that outbreed (Fig. 1C), for example, if avoiding inbreeding imposes direct costs of time, energy, or failure to mate (Keller and Arcese 1998; Kokko and Ots 2006), if optimal reproductive timing or location are correlated across relatives ...
DJ1N 34 Understanding and Supporting Behaviour
... challenging behaviour can cause but rather consider the expectations of others ( legislation, Care Commission, employers, professional standards and values) have. These expectations should be related to the care environment and the impact this may have on behaviour (and on the support that can be av ...
... challenging behaviour can cause but rather consider the expectations of others ( legislation, Care Commission, employers, professional standards and values) have. These expectations should be related to the care environment and the impact this may have on behaviour (and on the support that can be av ...
Ladislav Holý and Ernest Gellner
... problem in the Sudan, and my first work on the Berti was concerned with how far kinship and local or neighbourly relations determined recruitment to political, economic and ritual activities. That was why the book was called Neighbours and Kinsmen. The Berti themselves did not make a semantic distin ...
... problem in the Sudan, and my first work on the Berti was concerned with how far kinship and local or neighbourly relations determined recruitment to political, economic and ritual activities. That was why the book was called Neighbours and Kinsmen. The Berti themselves did not make a semantic distin ...
ANTH 301 - Wellesley College
... Office Hours: Th 5:30-6:30pm (other times by appointment only) Course Description This course introduces students to contemporary anthropology by tracing its historical development and its specific application in ethnographic writing. It examines the social context in which each selected model or “p ...
... Office Hours: Th 5:30-6:30pm (other times by appointment only) Course Description This course introduces students to contemporary anthropology by tracing its historical development and its specific application in ethnographic writing. It examines the social context in which each selected model or “p ...
- CUNY Academic Works
... (emotion/passion/sentiment/feeling) and reason do and/or should play in how we decide what to do? Evolutionary ethicists typically adopt Darwinism as a suitable explanation for evolution, and on that basis draw conclusions about moral epistemology. However, if Darwinism is to be offered as a premise ...
... (emotion/passion/sentiment/feeling) and reason do and/or should play in how we decide what to do? Evolutionary ethicists typically adopt Darwinism as a suitable explanation for evolution, and on that basis draw conclusions about moral epistemology. However, if Darwinism is to be offered as a premise ...
Strong ecological but weak evolutionary effects of elevated CO
... 1987; Penuelas & Matamala, 1990; Radoglou & Jarvis, 1990, but see Körner, 1988). The magnitude of change in herbaria specimens is similar, however, to plastic responses to eCO2; therefore, genetic changes need not be invoked to explain the observed changes (Woodward, 1987, 1993). Third, plants from ...
... 1987; Penuelas & Matamala, 1990; Radoglou & Jarvis, 1990, but see Körner, 1988). The magnitude of change in herbaria specimens is similar, however, to plastic responses to eCO2; therefore, genetic changes need not be invoked to explain the observed changes (Woodward, 1987, 1993). Third, plants from ...
Historicism
... local environment. Steward refuted the viability of globally and universally applicable adaptive standards proposing that culture was honed adaptively in response to the idiosyncrasies of the local environment, the cultural ecology, by specific evolution. What was adaptive for one region might not b ...
... local environment. Steward refuted the viability of globally and universally applicable adaptive standards proposing that culture was honed adaptively in response to the idiosyncrasies of the local environment, the cultural ecology, by specific evolution. What was adaptive for one region might not b ...
An Exercise
... critically about the things I say as well. In fact, if you don’t like the definitions (mine or those of others) of the concepts in the glossary, find another one that makes more sense to you and send it to me. If I feel it would be helpful to other students, I’ll put it up on the glossary as an alte ...
... critically about the things I say as well. In fact, if you don’t like the definitions (mine or those of others) of the concepts in the glossary, find another one that makes more sense to you and send it to me. If I feel it would be helpful to other students, I’ll put it up on the glossary as an alte ...
Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction
... In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg—a biologist and a philosopher, respectively—join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology, making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike. Exploring concepts such as supervenience, the controver ...
... In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg—a biologist and a philosopher, respectively—join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology, making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike. Exploring concepts such as supervenience, the controver ...