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Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue
Human societies are no doubt complex. They are characterized by division of labour, multiple hierarchies, intricate communication networks and transport systems. These phenomena and others have led scholars to propose that human society may be, or may become, a new hierarchical level that may domina...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9869440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36688397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0397 |
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author | Carmel, Yohay Shavit, Ayelet Lamm, Ehud Szathmáry, Eörs |
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description | Human societies are no doubt complex. They are characterized by division of labour, multiple hierarchies, intricate communication networks and transport systems. These phenomena and others have led scholars to propose that human society may be, or may become, a new hierarchical level that may dominate the individual humans within it, similar to the relations between an organism and its cells, or an ant colony and its members. Recent discussions of the possibility of this major evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI) raise interesting and controversial questions that are explored in the present issue from four different complementary perspectives. (i) The general theory of ETIs. (ii) The unique aspects of cultural evolution. (iii) The evolutionary history and pre-history of humans. (iv) Specific routes of a possible human ETI. Each perspective uses different tools provided by different disciplines: biology, anthropology, cultural evolution, systems theory, psychology, economy, linguistics and philosophy of science. Altogether, this issue provides a broad and rich application of the notion of ETI to human past, present and perhaps also future evolution. It presents important case studies, new theoretical results and novel questions for future research. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions’. |
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spelling | pubmed-98694402023-01-27 Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue Carmel, Yohay Shavit, Ayelet Lamm, Ehud Szathmáry, Eörs Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Introduction Human societies are no doubt complex. They are characterized by division of labour, multiple hierarchies, intricate communication networks and transport systems. These phenomena and others have led scholars to propose that human society may be, or may become, a new hierarchical level that may dominate the individual humans within it, similar to the relations between an organism and its cells, or an ant colony and its members. Recent discussions of the possibility of this major evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI) raise interesting and controversial questions that are explored in the present issue from four different complementary perspectives. (i) The general theory of ETIs. (ii) The unique aspects of cultural evolution. (iii) The evolutionary history and pre-history of humans. (iv) Specific routes of a possible human ETI. Each perspective uses different tools provided by different disciplines: biology, anthropology, cultural evolution, systems theory, psychology, economy, linguistics and philosophy of science. Altogether, this issue provides a broad and rich application of the notion of ETI to human past, present and perhaps also future evolution. It presents important case studies, new theoretical results and novel questions for future research. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions’. The Royal Society 2023-03-13 2023-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9869440/ /pubmed/36688397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0397 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Introduction Carmel, Yohay Shavit, Ayelet Lamm, Ehud Szathmáry, Eörs Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title | Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title_full | Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title_fullStr | Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title_full_unstemmed | Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title_short | Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
title_sort | human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue |
topic | Introduction |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9869440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36688397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0397 |
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