نتایج جستجو برای: cultural semantics

تعداد نتایج: 200881  

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012
Nicholas P Dunning Timothy P Beach Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach

Episodes of population loss and cultural change, including the famous Classic Collapse, punctuated the long course of Maya civilization. In many cases, these downturns in the fortunes of individual sites and entire regions included significant environmental components such as droughts or anthropogenic environmental degradation. Some afflicted areas remained depopulated for long periods, whereas...

2013
HRVOJE ČARGONJA

The article begins with a short introduction to phenomenology with an emphasis on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose ideas have had a great impact on cultural anthropology since the 1980s, especially through notions like ‘embodiment’ and ‘radical empiricism’. The article will proceed to outline main trends in phenomenological anthropology as well as its precursors. It then dedicates itsel...

Journal: :Physics of life reviews 2013
Liane Gabora

The commentators have brought a wealth of new perspectives to the question of how culture evolves. Each of their diverse disciplines--ranging from psychology to biology to anthropology to economics to engineering--has a valuable contribution to make to our understanding of this complex, multifaceted topic. Though the vast majority of their comments were supportive of my approach, it is natural ...

Journal: :Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2012
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Evolutionary models of cultural change have acquired an important role in attempts to explain the course of human evolution, especially our specialization in knowledge-gathering and intelligent control of environments. In both biological and cultural change, different patterns of explanation become relevant at different 'grains' of analysis and in contexts associated with different explanatory ...

Journal: :Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences 2017
Liane Gabora

This paper proposes a theory of creativity, referred to as honing theory, which posits that creativity fuels the process by which culture evolves through communal exchange amongst minds that are self-organizing, self-maintaining, and self-reproducing. According to honing theory, minds, like other self-organizing systems, modify their contents and adapt to their environments to minimize entropy....

2016
Elodie Guillaume Carole Pornet Olivier Dejardin Ludivine Launay Roberto Lillini Marina Vercelli Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo Amanda Fernández Fontelo Carme Borrell Ana Isabel Ribeiro Maria Fatima de Pina Alexandra Mayer Cyrille Delpierre Bernard Rachet Guy Launoy

BACKGROUND Despite a concerted policy effort in Europe, social inequalities in health are a persistent problem. Developing a standardised measure of socioeconomic level across Europe will improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and causes of inequalities. This will facilitate developing, implementing and assessing new and more effective policies, and will improve the comparabilit...

Journal: :Proceedings. Biological sciences 2010
David Luther Luis Baptista

In urban environments, anthropogenic noise can interfere with animal communication. Here we study the influence of urban noise on the cultural evolution of bird songs. We studied three adjacent dialects of white-crowned sparrow songs over a 30-year time span. Urban noise, which is louder at low frequencies, increased during our study period and therefore should have created a selection pressure...

2011
Ulf Toelch Matthew J. Bruce Marius T. H. Meeus Simon M. Reader

Behavioral flexibility allows individuals to react to environmental changes, but changing established behavior carries costs, with unknown benefits. Individuals may thus modify their behavioral flexibility according to the prevailing circumstances. Social information provided by the performance level of others provides one possible cue to assess the potential benefits of changing behavior, sinc...

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