The Principles of Social EvolutionDispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that the commonest customs and institutions may endure because of their very simplicity or as a result of simple human proclivity. Using religious, military, and kinship institutions to illustrate this argument, the author shows that a precise combination of these factors may lead to the emergence of new forms of social evolution. |
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Page 263
... irrigation involve , simultaneously , the imposition of the necessity for cooperation and the generation of fundamental sources of conflict . It is commonplace in studies of people practising irrigation to stress the fact that ...
... irrigation involve , simultaneously , the imposition of the necessity for cooperation and the generation of fundamental sources of conflict . It is commonplace in studies of people practising irrigation to stress the fact that ...
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... irrigation society . The vital social functions of constructing and maintaining small - scale irrigation works continued to be performed by village communities after the formation of the state , as they had been in prestate polities ...
... irrigation society . The vital social functions of constructing and maintaining small - scale irrigation works continued to be performed by village communities after the formation of the state , as they had been in prestate polities ...
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... irrigation works as early as the Proto - imperial period , but on the whole the settlements followed closely the shifting , braided channels of the major rivers . In other words , for a long time irrigation seems to have been conducted ...
... irrigation works as early as the Proto - imperial period , but on the whole the settlements followed closely the shifting , braided channels of the major rivers . In other words , for a long time irrigation seems to have been conducted ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Inheritance and variation | 47 |
Competition and cooperation | 56 |
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