Re: Paper: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN (SOCIAL) EVOLUTION?

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun 24 Aug 2003 - 21:44:15 GMT

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    >From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Paper: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN (SOCIAL)
    >EVOLUTION?
    >Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:26:34 -0400
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    >>From: Bruce Edmonds <b.edmonds@mmu.ac.uk>
    >>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>Subject: Paper: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN (SOCIAL)
    >>EVOLUTION?
    >>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:33:55 +0100
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    >>WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN (SOCIAL) EVOLUTION?
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    >>A paper of interest at:
    >>http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/theoretical-anthropology/godina.html
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    >Thanks Bruce. This article has some overlap (perhaps in a competitive zero
    >sum way) with the subject matter of Robert Wright's _Nonzero_, at least
    >with regards to the stages, complexification and unilinear trajectory of
    >cultural evolutionism.
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    Instd of complexification (hich could be a criteion of progress) I should have said progressivism in general. The article is a critique of general progressivism in social evolutionist thought. Wright's book has its own version of progressivism, based on nonzerosumness.

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