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An "Oscillation-Infrastructural" Theory of Cultural Evolution
Ape Species
Ard Plows
Attentional Allocation
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Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies
collective intelligence systems
Cooperative Hunting
cultural evolution theory
Deep Level Diversity
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Eusocial Insects
evolutionary anthropology
Fission-Fusion as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality
Fused States
group behavior modeling
Groups Fission
Humans' Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry
Impulse Control
infrastructure development history
Intuitive Information-Processing
Major Evolutionary Transitions
Mechanical Reaper
Multicelled Organisms
Naked Mole Rats
On the Important Distinction between Tools and Infrastructure
oscillatory social organization
Part 1
Part 2
Secondary Infrastructure
Shipping Waterways
social network dynamics
Sociological Intuitions
Sublinear Scaling
Superlinear Scaling
Surface Level Diversity
The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies
Transverse Wave
Voltaic Pile
Weak Tie Connection
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781032209418
- Weight: 557g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures—from electrical grids to sewage systems—have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of history. This book walks the reader carefully through these processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing style.
Kevin McCaffree is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. He is the author or co-author of three books, co-editor of Theoretical Sociology: The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation and series editor (with Jonathan H. Turner) of Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences. In addition to these works, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and handbook chapters published on a variety of topics ranging from cultural evolution to criminology to the sociology of empathy.
