THE INTENSITY OF FEEDBACKS BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 97-99

Abstract

An analysis of the nature of feedback mechanisms which operate between physical & cultural evolution. It is indicated that the rate of cultural evolution in modern human pop's is substantially controlled by non-genetic factors, ie, by soc enviromental & geographic opportunities. In the same vein, diff's in technological levels are explicable re diff'ial opportunity rather than by diff'ial intelligence. In various historical phases, a species depends on diff types of feedbacks as sources of energy for eveolutionary change, M. Farber.