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A scientific model of social and cultural evolution / Robert Gaber.

Title: A scientific model of social and cultural evolution / Robert Gaber.
Author: Graber, Robert Bates, 1950-
Publication: Kirksville, Mo. : Thomas Jefferson University Press ; Lanham, MD : University Pub. Associates, distributor, c1995.

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ix, 194 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Inertia. The Political Conception. The Geographic Conception. Case Study: The Rhesus Monkeys of Cayo Santiago. Practical Applications -- 3. Inhibition. Mathematical Preliminaries. Inhibition of Expansion as Circumscription. Case Study: The Westward Expansion, 1625-1900. The Causal Importance of r[subscript D]. Inhibition of Proliferation. Social Circumscription -- 4. Symmetry. The Crude Symmetry Thesis. The Special Symmetry Thesis. The General Symmetry Thesis. Implications of the General Symmetry Thesis. Incorporating Technology as a Variable. The Wessex Chalklands of South Britain. The Lower Santa Valley of Peru. The Westward Expansion, 1780-1870. Crowding, Integration, and Cultural Evolution as Causal Chain -- 5. Flux. Population Pressure. Carrying Capacity. Case Study: The Westward Expansion Revisited, 1790-1900. Some Possible Objections. Frontiers as Zones of Rapid Density Increase -- 6. Decay. Inertia Hypotheses for Decay. Growth-Phase Types.

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0943549191 (alk. paper)

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^^^94015948^

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