Cultural Evolution: Accomplishments and Future Prospects

نویسندگان

  • Peter J. Richerson
  • Robert Boyd
  • Edward Wilson
چکیده

Edward Wilson (1998) recently popularized William Whewell’s nineteenth-century idea of “consilience.” The idea was a favorite of Darwin’s. It holds that seemingly disparate phenomena in the world are in fact connected. Nuclear physics is “remote” scientifically from the social sciences, yet nuclear reactions in the sun are the most important source of energy on earth, nuclear decay in the earth’s interior drives seafloor spreading which in turn shapes terrestrial ecology, and nuclear weapons profoundly altered the shape of international politics in the twentieth century. Nothing is in principle irrelevant to the study of the human species--not nuclear reactions, not anything. Evolutionary theories apply to highly consilient phenomena.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008