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Subject: Tr: New Book
From: François Bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: mer fév 16 2000 - 12:37:54 CET
>ANNOUNCEMENT
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>New book on the integration of Darwinian natural selction theory and
>complexity theory - FEBRUARY 2000.
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>Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture
> Alan Dean
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>Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of nonmodern
>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.
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>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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>Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; From primate to human; The
>emergence of symbolic reasoning; Cognitio Tue 22 Feb 2000 10:15:22 +0100
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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>Alan Dean, The University of Hull, UK.
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>ISBN: 0-7546-1049-7 2000 154 pages £35.00 Hardback
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