Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... reproduction favouring one genotype at the expense of another is counterbalanced by discriminatory reproduction controlling individual procreation within the favoured genotype . It operates either by regulating the number of offspring ...
... reproduction favouring one genotype at the expense of another is counterbalanced by discriminatory reproduction controlling individual procreation within the favoured genotype . It operates either by regulating the number of offspring ...
Page 61
... reproduced in the future . Its constitution is the result of accidental mutations adopted and standardized ; its evolution corresponds to reversals of values within a generally unvarying structure . Genetic reproduction ensures its ...
... reproduced in the future . Its constitution is the result of accidental mutations adopted and standardized ; its evolution corresponds to reversals of values within a generally unvarying structure . Genetic reproduction ensures its ...
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... reproduction fulfils a specific function while diverging from natural reproduction . The latter mediates between the species and the environment so that specific qualities recur with undiminished efficiency . The species is preserved ...
... reproduction fulfils a specific function while diverging from natural reproduction . The latter mediates between the species and the environment so that specific qualities recur with undiminished efficiency . The species is preserved ...
Contents
Early Primates | 1 |
Societies Without Speech | 9 |
The Demands of Social Life | 15 |
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activities adaptation adolescents adult males affiliation societies alliances animal societies Année sociologique anthropoid aptitudes Australopithecus baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism cerebral cortex chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute created culture depends differentiation distinct division dominant male ecological emergence environment established Ethologists evolution evolutionary existence exogamy exploited fact foraging function gathering genetic habitat hierarchy hominids Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship labour laws less Lévi-Strauss living male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage monkeys monosexual mother mutations mutual natural selection non-reproductive objects observed pattern permanent phenomenon physical and anatomical population predacity prey primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals sexes sexual sexual reproduction significance skills social organization social structure species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory tool-making Trobriand Islands unit women young