Hi all,
Just to indicate that the Moq and Memes do have something going on,
same time, same caf�, me and Ms Jones....
I will send the rest, that is the replies to this article to the Moq...
Or, link to Memetics and go from there....
Kenneth
----- Original Message -----
From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: new article
> The transition from quantity to quality: A neglected causal mechanism in
> accounting for social evolution
> Robert L. Carneiro
> American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
> Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, Issue 23, 12926-12931, November 7,
2000
>
> Students of social evolution are concerned not only with the general
course
> it has followed, but also with the mechanisms that have brought it about.
> One such mechanism comes into play when the quantitative increase in some
> entity, usually population, reaching a certain threshold, gives rise to a
> qualitative change in the structure of a society. This mechanism, first
> recognized by Hegel, was seized on by Marx and Engels. However, neither
they
> nor their current followers among anthropologists have made much use of it
> in attempting to explain social evolution. But as this paper attempts to
> show, in those few instances when the mechanism has been invoked, it has
> heightened our understanding of the process of social evolution. And, it
is
> argued, if the mechanism were more widely applied, further understanding
of
> the course of evolution could be expected to result.
>
> Available at:
>
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/23/12926
>
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