Darwin's conjecture : the search for general principles of social and economic evolution / Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjorn Knudsen.

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Main Author: Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946-
Other Authors: Knudsen, Thorbjørn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • The challenge of Darwinism for the social sciences
  • Generalizing Darwinism
  • Rivals and rebuttals
  • The Lamarckian confusion
  • The principle of selection and its application to social evolution
  • Information, complexity, and generative replication
  • From group selection to organizational interactors
  • Major informational transitions in social evolution
  • Conclusion and agenda for future research.