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The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
Wendy Wheeler
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Description for The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
Paperback. Arguing that humans are, in a fundamental sense, social beings, this book articulates that this can be grasped from understanding the complex social processes of evolution. It shows that through looking at the complex emergence of human society and culture, we can get a better understanding of how 'the whole creature' operates. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 238. Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. 174 pages, black & white illustrations. Arguing that humans are, in a fundamental sense, social beings, this book articulates that this can be grasped from understanding the complex social processes of evolution. It shows that through looking at the complex emergence of human society and culture, we can get a better understanding of how 'the whole creature' operates. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 13. Weight: 238.
In this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the biological reductionism of much recent evolutionary psychology, and in the philosophies of neoliberalism. She shows, instead, that the complex structures of biosemiotic evolution have always involved a ... Read more
In this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the biological reductionism of much recent evolutionary psychology, and in the philosophies of neoliberalism. She shows, instead, that the complex structures of biosemiotic evolution have always involved a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lawrence And Wishart Ltd
Number of pages
174
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905007301
SKU
V9781905007301
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Reviews for The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture
'What a pleasure to read this book, which integrates biosemiotics into a wider argument about the material basis for human sociality. What struck me the is the political dimension which Wheeler brings to my work. When I began developing biosemiotics my old political friends didn't appreciate it because they didn't see how it connected to other ... Read more