Evolution and Man’S Progress

✍ Scribed by Hudson Hoagland (editor); Ralph W. Burhoe (editor)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 192
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Explores some of the longer and shorter-range problems on which some light is shed by evolutionary theory as it applies to man found in the biological and behavioral and social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Mechanisms and Trends in Human Evolution
Should We Weaken or Strengthen our Genetic Heritage?
Comments on Genetic Evolution
Some Mechanisms of Sociocultural Evolution
On Some Social Consequences of Scientific and Technological Change
Comments on Cultural Evolution
The Design of Cultures
Unprecedented Evolutions
Cultural Evolution as Viewed by Psychologists
Notes on the Authors
Glossary
Conferences on Evolutionary Theory and Human Progress

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