Evolution of Information
Lineages in Gene, Culture and Artefact
Published on 18. April 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-86187-895-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a contribution to a renewed worldwide interest in macro evolutionary perspectives. Many writers over the last decade have made significant contributions to an emerging paradigm that provides common frameworks of evolution across several hitherto unconnected domains. As the price of working in the Third World, some of these contributions were unknown to the author till after the completion of a first draft of this manuscript.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-895-6 (9780861878956)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction; biological evolution - the genetic tree; chenotypal information; the neural system; animal social structures, behaviour and culture; changing human social structures and history; cultural trees and the social stratification system; exosomatic information lineages; storage and hardware; exosomatic information processing; the common dynamics of information lineages; the deep engines of entropic change; afterword.