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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Richard Newbold (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
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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