Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
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Important New Evidence on Language Development. Science magazine (Vol. 305, pp. 1779-1782) published the analysis of an amazing natural experiment in Nicaragua where deaf children created a new sign language. Summary: Although the findings are consistent with both directions of…
Read more →Stanley Metcalfy has composed a wonderful review essay of John Ziman’s Technological Innnovation as an Evolutionary Process. Read it here.
Read more →Timur Kuran has written a fascinating paper on Why the Middle East is economically underdeveloped. Anyone interested in social evolution will find this timely paper worth reading. Download Paper
Read more →Geoffrey Hodgson has published a new book, The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism.You can read here the review published on EH.Net. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, _The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in…
Read more →A Workshop on Adaptation vs. Selection in Industrial Change will take place at the Academy of Management Meeting in New Orleans, August 7, 2004.
Read more →The abstracts of a new working papers on industrial evolution by Giovanni Gavetti and Johann Peter Murmann are posted.
Read more →An Evolutionary Approach to Social Welfare by Christian Satorius From the Publisher: A person finds a lost purse with a lot of money in it. Ought she try to return it to its owner or keep it herself? And even…
Read more →PBS has produced a spectacular film showing how recent advances in genetic analyses are rewriting the history of human beings. See the PBS website for a schedule of The Journey of Man. The film is also available on video, and…
Read more →Robert Aunger has published a new book in which he spells out his theory of memes. You can read the introduction and the first chapter of his “Electric Meme” here
Read more →Following in the tradition of Karl Popper and David Hull, Marion Blute has written a very interesting paper on the development of science as an evolutionary process. You can read the article The Evolutionary Ecology of Science online at the…
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