Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781108470971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 564 str.

Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh

Opis

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Recenzje

'Van den Bergh's book is an outstanding, long-missing synthesis of current strands of evolutionary theorizing in the natural, social and cultural sciences. It fascinates the reader by its thought-provoking claim of a unity of the evolutionary approach across disciplinary boundaries and by the practical implications derived for better understanding environmental problems, climate change, economic development, technology evolution and many more present day topics.' Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany

Spis treści

Part I. Prevue: 1. Making the improbable probable; 2. The world according to evolution; Part II. Evolutionary Biology: 3. Pre-Darwinism, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism; 4. Advanced ideas in evolutionary biology and genetics; Part III. Bridging Natural and Social Sciences: 5. Evolution of social behaviour in animals and humans; 6. Group selection in biology and the social sciences; Part IV. Evolutionary Social Sciences: 7. Evolutionary theories of human culture; 8. Evolutionary economics; 9. Evolution of organisations and institutions; 10. Technological evolution; Part V. Evolutionary Cultural History: 11. Pre-history until the rise of agriculture; 12. Industrialisation and technological history; Part VI. Evolutionary Environmental and Policy Sciences: 13. Survival of the greenest; 14. Evolving solutions for climate change; 15. Evolutionary policy and politics; 16. Evolutionary futures.