Techno-Cultural Evolution Cycles of Creation and Conflict

Name: Techno-Cultural Evolution Cycles of Creation and Conflict
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ISBN: 9781597971072

ISBN-10: 1597971073

ISBN-13: 9781597971072

Edition: 2007

Authors: William McDonald Wallace

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Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Darwin assumed. It is instead a two-part process of change and stability called punctuated equilibrium, with natural selection operating mainly on the frontiers of change. Taking account of biology's latest understanding of evolution, it becomes clear that culture evolves by a similar process. This is important because over the past 30,000 years most human evolution and the behavioral changes that go with it have occurred in our cultures-not in our genes. Knowing the process by which culture evolves clarifies the origin of many of our current…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



From Risen Ape to Human Techno-Culture



The FROCA Process of Cultural Evolution



Climatic Crisis and the Risen Ape



The Ice Ages and a Bigger Brain



Techno-Culture Takes Over



Early Farming to Despotic Civilization



Farming as a New Frontier



Release and Exploitation: A Population Explosion



Social Crash as Intra-Tribal Anarchy



Adaptation through Despotic Civilization



Equilibrium through Repressed Technology



Empires Evolve to Quell Inter-Tribal Warfare



Barbaric Disruption: The Fall of Rome



From Dark Ages to Enlightenment



Feudalism Opens New Frontiers of Technology



Europe Revives to Exploit Colonial Frontiers



Democracy Challenges Despotism



New Technologies Open Industrial Frontiers



Opening the American Frontiers



America's New Frontier



Clashing Founder Effects and the Civil War



The High-Tech Frontier Takes Over



America as Sole Superpower



Technology and the Prospects for a Meta-Crash



Globalization and Its Discontents



Resurgent High-Tech Tribalism and a Crash of the Western Alliance



Technology and the Global Ecosystem



A Post-Crash Theocracy for a Stable Global Ecosystem



A More Hopeful Scenario



Science and Evolution



Autopoiesis: Toward an Integrated Theory of Human Behavior


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index