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Author : William M. Wheeler
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ISBN 13 : 9780849557026
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William M. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1979-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Morton Wheeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Morton Wheeler
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Worster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521468343
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Nature's Economy written by Donald Worster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.
Author : David Blitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401580421
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Emergent Evolution written by David Blitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.
Author : William McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317275098
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Modern Materialism and Emergent Evolution written by William McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1929, McDougall examines the pertinent conflict between religion and science. His work exhibits the failure of scientists to explain human action mechanistically (the essence of modern materialism), establishes purposive action as a type of event radically different from all mechanistic events, and justifies the belief in teleological causation without which there can be neither religion nor morals. This title will be of interest to students of both the Humanities and Sciences, particularly those studying psychology and philosophy.
Author : Lawrence Cahoone
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438444176
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Orders of Nature written by Lawrence Cahoone and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical Society of America Reviving and modernizing the tradition of post Darwinian naturalism, The Orders of Nature draws on philosophy and the natural sciences to present a naturalistic theory of reality. Conceiving of nature as systems, processes, and structures that exhibit diverse properties that can be hierarchically arranged, Lawrence Cahoone sketches a systematic metaphysics based on the following orders of nature: physical, material, biological, mental, and cultural. Using recent work in the science of complexity, hierarchical systems theory, and nonfoundational approaches to metaphysics, Cahoone analyzes these orders with explanations of the underlying science, covering a range of topics that includes general relativity and quantum field theory; chemistry and inorganic complexity; biology and telenomic explanation, or "purpose"; the theory of mind and mental causation as an animal phenomenon; and the human mind's unique cultural abilities. The book concludes with an exploration of what answers such a theory of naturalism can provide to questions about values and God.
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Pearl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Review of Biology written by Raymond Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "New biological books" and other bibliographies.
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne C. Rose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190935634
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book In the Hearts of the Beasts written by Anne C. Rose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and scientific opinion on the subject has been divided. Charles Darwin believed animals and humans share a common core of fear, anger, and affection. Today most researchers agree that animals experience comfort or pain. Around 1900 in the United States, however, where intelligence was the dominant interest in the lab and field, animal emotion began as an accidental question. Organisms ranging from insects to primates, already used to test learning, displayed appetites and aversions that pushed psychologists and biologists in new scientific directions. The Americans were committed empiricists, and the routine of devising experiments, observing, and reflecting permitted them to change their minds and encouraged them to do so. By 1980, the emotional behavior of predatory ants, fearful rats, curious raccoons, resourceful bats, and shy apes was part of American science. In this open-ended environment, the scientists' personal lives--their families, trips abroad, and public service--also affected their professional labor. The Americans kept up with the latest intellectual trends in genetics, evolution, and ethology, and they sometimes pioneered them. But there is a bottom-up story to be told about the scientific consequences of animals and humans brought together in the pursuit of knowledge. The history of the American science of animal emotions reveals the ability of animals to teach and scientists to learn.
Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132959
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics written by Michael Ruse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.
Author : F.C. Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650603
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Study of Society (RLE Social Theory) written by F.C. Bartlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is today widespread recognition of the fact that the future of human civilization depends to a high degree upon Man’s capacity to understand the forces and factors which control his own behaviour. Such understanding must be achieved, not only as regards individual conduct, but equally as regards the mass phenomena resulting from group contacts, which are becoming increasingly intimate and influential. Until this present volume, nowhere have the three sciences of sociology, psychology and social anthropology been properly mobilized to deal with the social problems which yearly grow more pressing. The essays in this book aim to address this.
Author : Jacobus J. Boomsma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191063215
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution written by Jacobus J. Boomsma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary change is usually incremental and continuous, but some increases in organizational complexity have been radical and divisive. Evolutionary biologists, who refer to such events as “major transitions”, have not always appreciated that these advances were novel forms of pairwise commitment that subjugated previously independent agents. Inclusive fitness theory convincingly explains cooperation and conflict in societies of animals and free-living cells, but to deserve its eminent status it should also capture how major transitions originated: from prokaryote cells to eukaryote cells, via differentiated multicellularity, to colonies with specialized queen and worker castes. As yet, no attempt has been made to apply inclusive fitness principles to the origins of these events. Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution develops the idea that major evolutionary transitions involved new levels of informational closure that moved beyond looser partnerships. Early neo-Darwinians understood this principle, but later social gradient thinking obscured the discontinuity of life's fundamental organizational transitions. The author argues that the major transitions required maximal kinship in simple ancestors - not conflict reduction in already elaborate societies. Reviewing more than a century of literature, he makes testable predictions, proposing that open societies and closed organisms require very different inclusive fitness explanations. It appears that only human ancestors lived in societies that were already complex before our major cultural transition occurred. We should therefore not impose the trajectory of our own social history on the rest of nature. This thought-provoking text is suitable for graduate-level students taking courses in evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, organismal developmental biology, and evolutionary genetics, as well as professional researchers in these fields. It will also appeal to a broader, interdisciplinary audience, including the social sciences and humanities.
Author : Gregg Mitman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226532363
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)
Download or read book The State of Nature written by Gregg Mitman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.
Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521544948
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Boundaries of the Mind written by Robert A. Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book provides the foundations for the view that the mind extends beyond the boundary of the individual.
Author : Ciprian Jeler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319786776
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution written by Ciprian Jeler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective. This is achieved by discussing multilevel selection in the first half of the twentieth century, the reasons for the energetic rejection of Wynne-Edwards’ group selectionist stance in the 1960s, Elisabeth Lloyd’s contribution to the units of selection debate, Price’s hierarchical equation and its possible interpretations and, finally, species selection in macroevolutionary contexts. Another idea also seems to emerge from these studies; namely, that perhaps a more sure-footed position for multilevel selection theory would be acquired if we were to show a renewed interest in 'old group selection', i.e. in scenarios in which the differential reproduction of the groups themselves affects the frequencies of either individual-level or group-level traits. This book will be of interest to philosophers and historians of biology, as well as to theoretically inclined biologists who have an interest in multilevel selection theory.
