The dance of innovation : infrastructure, social oscillation, and the evolution of societies /: infrastructure, social oscillation, and the evolution of societies. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kevin McCaffree.
• Authors: McCaffree, Kevin J, 1985-
• Contents: Introduction; 1. Humans’ Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry; 2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 1; 3. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 2; 4. Intuitive Information Processing; 5. On the Important Distinction Between “Tools” and “Infrastructure”; 6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies; 7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies; 8. An “Oscillation-Infrastructural” Theory of Cultural Evolution
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363; Infrastructure (Economics); Technological innovations; Social evolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000545197; 9781000545180; 9781003266020
• Related ISBNs: 9781032209418; 9781032209395
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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