Eighth Day Social Evolution As the Self-Organization of Energy

Name: Eighth Day Social Evolution As the Self-Organization of Energy
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ISBN: 9780292720619

ISBN-10: 0292720610

ISBN-13: 9780292720619

Edition: 1988

Authors: Richard Newbold Adams

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Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process?The Eighth Dayreflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes.The Eighth Dayargues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Richard Newbold Adams is Rapoport Centennial Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.