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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Here, leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture. The contributors consider innovation in biological terms discussing epistemology, animal studies, systematics and phylogeny, phenotypic plasticity and evolvability, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259101
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- 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) :illustrations.
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The genesis of animal play : testing the limits
In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution, the brain, behavioral organization, and psychology. Is play essential to development? Is it the driving force behind human and animal behavior? What is the proper place for the study of play in the cognitive, behavioral…
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- 9780262269551
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 501 pages) : illustrations
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Genetic programming 1996 : Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, July 2…
Genetic programming is a domain-independent method for automatic programming that evolves computer programs that solve, or approximately solve, problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to a problem, a population of programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian princi…
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- 9780262315876
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 568 pages) : illustrations.
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The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295666
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- 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) :illustrations
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ReCombinatorics :the algorithmics of ancestral recombination graphs and expli…
Combinatorial structure and algorithms for deducing genetic recombination history, represented by ancestral recombination graphs and other networks, and their role in the emerging field of phylogenetic networks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262324472
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages)
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Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
This title shows the advantages of a Lamarckian perspective on evolution. Indeed the development-oriented approach it presents is becoming central to current evolutionary studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295642
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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Parasites, pathogens, and progress: Diseases and economic development
In this work, the authors combine biological and economic perspectives to suggest an innovative view of American history with implications for how we understand history as a whole.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298391
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- 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) :illustrations
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The evolved apprentice: How evolution made humans unique
"A Bradford book."Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor adv…
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Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic
First edition published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2005.A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an upda…
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- 9780262322676
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Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern…
"Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing ever…
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