Complexity, Compassion and Self-Organisation: Human Evolution and the Vulnerable Ape Hypothesis
Humans are agents capable of helping others, learning new behaviours and forgetting old ones. The evolutionary approach to archaeological systems has therefore been hampered by the 'modern synthesis' - a gene-centred model of evolution as a process that eliminates those that cannot handle...
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Language: | English |
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University of York
2015-06-01
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Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/3/index.html |