How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An ...

The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of socio-cultural systems was done by Talcott Parsons on a scale which included a theory ...

In this article, we propose that cultural evolution theory (CET) can be usefully applied to organizational scholarship to pursue such “origin” questions. CET has adapted ideas and methods from ...

Fully explaining organizational phenomena requires exploring not only “how” a phenomenon works – i.e., the details of its internal structure and mechanisms – but also “why” the phenomenon is present ...

The paper, titled “Multilevel cultural evolution: From new theory to practical applications,” explores how humans have evolved as a highly prosocial species. While individual success alone drives ...

This statement may appear paradoxical, but it will not appear to be contradictory if we understand the Chinese civilizational and cultural evolution. In its 5,000 years of development, the Chinese ...

The timeline of stone tool development by humans has been rearranged by new research, shaking up traditional views about the evolution of ancient human ... that early humans experienced a rapid ...