The Eighth Day : Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy /
Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Energy Process
- 3. Energy Dynamics
- 4. Self-Organization
- 5. Culture
- 6. Domestication
- 7. Natural Selection
- 8. Boundary Dynamics
- 9. Civilization
- 10. Humanities
- 11. Expansion In Social Hierarchy: A Model
- 12. Energy and Industrialization
- Postscript: Development and Contemporary Social Evolution
- References
- Index