The nature of cultures : a blueprint for a theory of culture genetics / Heiner Mühlmann ; translated from German by Robert Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mühlmann, Heiner.

Standardized Title:

Natur der Kulturen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Sociobiology.

Human genetics.

Social evolution.

Culture.

Human behavior.

Physical Description:

vi, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Wien ; New York : Springer, [1996]

Summary:

How do stress behaviour, cooperation and the cultural evaluation of rules create cultural characteristics such as the two-thousand year old system of decorum and the principle of the sublime? Muhlmann describes how maximal-stress-cooperation (MSC) linked to the dynamics of warfare generates the cultural phenomenon of rule-adjustment-decorum, rule-adjustment being a discovery made while experimenting on Artificial Life. Using molecular and culture genetic as well as genetical algorithm methods, he proposes an evolutionary theory for Western culture.

Notes:

"Original title: 'Die Natur de Kulturen. Entwurf einer kulturgenetischen Theorie' (Ästhetik und Naturwissenschaften. Bildende Wissenschaften -- Zivilisierung der Kulturen)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-135).

ISBN:

3211828001

OCLC:

59611495