W G Runciman: 2 books
by W. G. Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals. The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within...
by W. G. Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory,...