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Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture
Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture
Routledge Revivals Series
Author: Dean Alan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of...:
Keywords
UK Weather; Animal Kingdom; social theory; Web Building Spiders; human agency; Species Level Conditions; culture; Initial Gradual Increase; human evolution; Head Circumference; complexity theory; Sky Hooks; cultural analyses; Strange Attractor; cognitive abilities; Cognitive Evolution; nonmodern social theory; Darwinian Natural Selection Theory; Quasiperiodic Attractor; Deontic Logic; Higher Order Consciousness; Darwinian Algorithm; Postmodern Social Science; Symbolic Reasoning; Aid Virus; Consanguineous Mating; Human Origins Research; Adaptive Rationality; Mother Son Incest; Prereproductive Mortality; Early Human Evolution; Primary Consciousness; Incest Taboos
Publication date: 06-2021
· 15.2x21.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15x21.5 cm · Hardback
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This title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding human agency. Darwinian natural selection theory and complexity theory are used to provide new insights into human origins, mind and culture. Through bringing these ideas together it is argued that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency and that in consequence it is time to transcend the limitations of both modern and postmodern social science. This book argues that nature has never been controlled or transcended. Humankind is instead an emerged outcome of the historical interweaving of the environment, morphology, mind and culture. This wide-ranging analysis offers new insights into human nature for anthropologists and sociologists interested in human evolution, social theory or human agency.