Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

This title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding human agency. Darwinian natural selection theory and complexity theory are used to provide new insights into human origins, mind and culture. Through bringing these ideas together it is argued that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency and that in consequence it is time to transcend the limitations of both modern and postmodern social science. This book argues that nature has never been controlled or transcended. Humankind is instead an emerged outcome of the historical interweaving of the environment, morphology, mind and culture. This wide-ranging analysis offers new insights into human nature for anthropologists and sociologists interested in human evolution, social theory or human agency.

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Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

This title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding human agency. Darwinian natural selection theory and complexity theory are used to provide new insights into human origins, mind and culture. Through bringing these ideas together it is argued that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency and that in consequence it is time to transcend the limitations of both modern and postmodern social science. This book argues that nature has never been controlled or transcended. Humankind is instead an emerged outcome of the historical interweaving of the environment, morphology, mind and culture. This wide-ranging analysis offers new insights into human nature for anthropologists and sociologists interested in human evolution, social theory or human agency.

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Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

by Alan Dean
Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture

by Alan Dean

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This title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding human agency. Darwinian natural selection theory and complexity theory are used to provide new insights into human origins, mind and culture. Through bringing these ideas together it is argued that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency and that in consequence it is time to transcend the limitations of both modern and postmodern social science. This book argues that nature has never been controlled or transcended. Humankind is instead an emerged outcome of the historical interweaving of the environment, morphology, mind and culture. This wide-ranging analysis offers new insights into human nature for anthropologists and sociologists interested in human evolution, social theory or human agency.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351792233
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/15/2019
Series: Routledge Revivals
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Alan Dean

Table of Contents

Introduction; From primate to human; The emergence of symbolic reasoning; Cognition and adaptation; Encountering the cultural world; Nature in culture; Nonlinearity in the social world; Nonmodernity and the emergence of cognition and culture; Bibliography.
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