Dennis P. Waters
Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity
Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity
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Behavior and Culture in One Dimension adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences and their functions and an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity. It explores the one-dimensional sequences that orchestrate the structure and behavior of our three-dimensional habitat, using Gibsonian concepts of perception, action, and affordances. It offers a Darwinian framework for understanding human cultural evolution and locates the two major informational transitions in the origins of life and civilization.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 09 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Behavior and Culture in One Dimension takes a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences and their functions and providing an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity. DNA sequences guide the functioning of the living world, speech and writing sequences choreograph the intricacies of human culture, and code sequences oversee the operation of our literate technological civilization. These linear patterns operate under their own rules, which have never been fully explored. It is time for them to receive their due attention. This book explores the one-dimensional sequences that orchestrate the structure and behavior of our three-dimensional habitat. Drawing on Gibsonian concepts of perception, action, and affordances, as well as the works of Howard Pattee, the book examines the role of sequences in the human behavioral and cultural world of speech, writing, and mathematics.
The book offers a Darwinian framework for understanding human cultural evolution and identifies the two major informational transitions in the origins of life and civilization. It will be of interest to students and researchers in ecological psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and the social and biological sciences.
Weight: 414g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367703295
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