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Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales. [PDF]
PLoS OneJungkunz S, Helbling M, Osenbrügge N.
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Universal Darwinism and the Origins of Order
Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2019In this chapter we describe the ‘universal Darwinism’ framework which proposes the following. The observable universe results from two types of processes: (1) disorder’s tendency to increase in isolated systems (the second law of thermodynamics) and (2) Darwinian selection, which produces orderly entities that can withstand the second law.
Michael E Price, Price Michael E
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Universal Darwinism and evolutionary social science
Biology and Philosophy, 2006Save for Anthropologists, few social scientists have been among the participants in the discussions about the appropriate structure of a ‘Universal Darwinism’. Yet evolutionary theorizing about cultural, social, and economic phenomena has a long tradition, going back well before Darwin.
Richard R Nelson, Nelson Richard R
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Universal Darwinism in greenhouses: Proof of concept using an agent based model
2011 International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 2011A case study and computer simulations provide evidence that greenhouse horticulture businesses display diversity and adaptive complexity, both key features of evolution that led Darwin to develop the theory of natural selection in response to the astounding diversity and adaptive complexity of living species.
J Kasmire, Igor Nikolic
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Evolutionary social science and universal Darwinism
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2006How should social scientists, inclined to an evolutionary theory of aspects of human culture like science, technology, business organization and practice, react to proposals that they embrace a “Universal Darwinism”? The most prominent variety of Universal Darwinism argues for close counterparts between the variables and mechanisms of cultural ...
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Universal Darwinism and process essentialism
2006Daniel Dennett has claimed that ‘nothing complicated enough to be really interesting could have an essence’. He and other universal Darwinists hold that Darwin’s theory undermined traditional essentialism in biology. This paper shows, first, that Dennett and other universal Darwinists are themselves committed to an essentialist view about historical ...
Derek Turner
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Darwin and the universities in Canada
Interchange, 1983The struggle for academic freedom in nineteenth century Ontario was closely bound to the acceptance of evolutionary theory. This theory came to be reconciled to theology through the labors of biblical exegesis. By the close of the 1880s those who worked in the science departments of the universities had attained academic freedom and could pursue their ...
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The Universal Darwinism of Disease
Science, 2007Dynamics of Cancer . Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution. By Steven A. Frank . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. 392 pp. $99.50, £59.95. ISBN 9780691133652. Paper, $39.50, £23.95. ISBN 9780691133669. Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology.
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