On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection

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ID19903343
AuthorsJonathan H Turner (0000-0002-1299-2540), Aexandra Maryanski (0009-0001-3273-6149), Alexandra Maryanski
Year2015
Pages376
Publication date2015-11-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOn the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315633121
OpenAlexW4299870830
Open LibraryOL51778824M
ISBN9781315633121
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these tensions only grew along with later, more complex-eventually colossal-sociocultural systems. The ape in us was not extinguished, nor obviated, by culture; indeed, our ancestry continues to place pressures on individuals and their sociocultural creations. Not just an exercise in history, this pathbreaking book dispels many myths about the beginning of society to gain new understandings of the many pressures on societies today

Archaeology · Natural (archaeology) · Natural selection · Political science · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · History · Anthropology · Social groups · Social history · Social structure

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