Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... genetic material . The communal value of particular behaviour patterns overrules their individual value ; the working order of the social mechanism depends on them and the survival of the community takes precedence over that of one of ...
... genetic material . The communal value of particular behaviour patterns overrules their individual value ; the working order of the social mechanism depends on them and the survival of the community takes precedence over that of one of ...
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... Genetic reproduction ensures its permanent constitution , while selection influences the course of evolution by adapting this structure to environmental conditions . The diffusion and natural evolution of organic matter which we call ...
... Genetic reproduction ensures its permanent constitution , while selection influences the course of evolution by adapting this structure to environmental conditions . The diffusion and natural evolution of organic matter which we call ...
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... genetic and non - genetic reproductive potential and the tendency of populations to exceed their ecological boundaries reduce the pressure on genetic mutations to a mere virtuality . Moreover when certain groups of an animal community ...
... genetic and non - genetic reproductive potential and the tendency of populations to exceed their ecological boundaries reduce the pressure on genetic mutations to a mere virtuality . Moreover when certain groups of an animal community ...
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 anthropoid aptitudes baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute conventions correspond created culture depends differentiation distinct dominant male emergence endogamy environment established evolution evolutionary exchange existence exogamy fact father foraging function genetic hierarchy hominid Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship Laius less Lévi-Strauss living maintain male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage masculine matrimonial means monkeys monosexual mother mutual natural natural selection non-reproductive objects observed Oedipus organic permanent phenomenon population predacity primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships represents reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals Robert Jaulin sexes sexual sexual intercourse sexual reproduction significance skills social structure sons species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory Trobriand Islands unit whole woman women young