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A model of cultural evolution associated with Leslie White and Julian Steward that seeks to define the forces that cause cultures to change..
That readaptation has involved the incorporation of ideas not given explicit emphasis in neoevolution, the most important of which is systems theory.
Leslie Alvin White, president of the American Anthropological Association, who is known for his advocacy of the theories on sociocultural evolution and neoevolution during the 1960s wrote, “Evolution may be defined as a temporal sequence of forms—one form grows out of another; culture advances from one stage to another. In this process, time is as integral a factor as change of form."
Problems with neoevolution and cultural ecology inevitably led to a strong theoretical response both in sociocultural anthropology and archaeology.
In W. Roux' theory of neoevolution, the “mosaic theory” of development, the ordered structure of the adult organism is projected back upon the egg, each part of which represents the primordium of a corresponding part of the adult.
The phylogenetic adaptive significance of the "' neoevolution" of this tissue type is considered.
Techniques involving chromosomal analysis of polygene sequences have been exploited only sparingly, yet, as indicated earlier, are full of promise when problems of neoevolution are approached.
The data document the neoevolution of a unique polygenic character in males.
Sceptics like this, while human nature lasts, there will always be—men who, like Holy Church, "willingly are ignorant of" the plain outstanding facts of evolution, and most particularly of that plain outstanding fact in neoevolution, psychological parthenogenesis, the “second birth" of John iii, 3–10, as a fool's substitute for which arose the world-wide conventional myth of “virgin birth" which, in its rôle of Antichrist, has succeeded in postponing for some nineteen centuries the consummation of that final evolutionary phenomenon in man called "Christ."
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Neoevolution means A model of cultural evolution associated with Leslie White and Julian Steward that seeks to define the forces that cause cultures to change..
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That readaptation has involved the incorporation of ideas not given explicit emphasis in neoevolution, the most important of which is systems theory.
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