Darwin's conjecture : the search for general principles of social and economic evolution / Geoffrey...
Darwin's conjecture : the search for general principles of social and economic evolution / Geoffrey...
Darwin's conjecture : the search for general principles of social and economic evolution / Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen.
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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N303.4/91
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English
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xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
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The challenge of Darwinism for the social sciences -- Generalizing Darwinism -- Rivals and rebuttals -- The Lamarckian confusion -- The principle of selection and its application to social evolution -- Information, complexity, and generative replication -- From group selection to organizational inte...
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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Illinois
Date Published
2010.
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"The principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society͠until now." "In Darwin's Conjecture, Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbj°rn Knudsen reveal how these core conc...
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Darwin's conjecture : the search for general principles of social and economic evolution / Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-275) and index.
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N303.4/91
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74VvDVdR0e23
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0226346900 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226346908 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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303.4
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991004935949702626
