1st Edition
Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture
By Alan Dean
Copyright 2001
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; From primate to human; The emergence of symbolic reasoning; Cognition and adaptation; Encountering the cultural world; Nature in culture; Nonlinearity in the social world; Nonmodernity and the emergence of cognition and culture; Bibliography.
Biography
Alan Dean
'Some evolutionary biologists have drawn incorrect inferences about, say, incest taboos, because of their ignorance of anthropological data, or they have wasted everyone's time by starting again. Dean's review of incest in this book is a valuable correction.' Journal of Biosocial Science
