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1 online resource (114 p.) |
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South American Archaeology Ser. ; v.24 |
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South American Archaeology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Hernán Muscio,1 Marcelo Cardillo2 -- PREFACE -- Hernán Muscio,1 Marcelo Cardillo2 -- References -- Introduction: Evolutionary Archaeology a comprehensive framework -- CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: -- CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: -- Is it conceptually coherent to apply natural selection to cultural evolution? -- Is it conceptually coherent to apply natural selection to cultural evolution? -- Santiago Ginnobili -- Fig. 1: Theory-net for the theory of natural selection -- Santiago Ginnobili -- Abstract -- Resumen -- Introduction |
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Lamarkian cultural evolution -- The Darwinian Theory of Natural Selection -- Nature of the variation -- Darwinian cultural adaptions -- Conclusion -- References -- A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY -- A SYNTHESIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY -- Daniel García Rivero -- Figure 1: Graphical representations of the paradigmatic (a) and taxonomic classifications (b). Figure elaborated after (Dunnell 1971, Figures 4 and 6, respectively) |
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Figure 2: The decoration of megalithic uprights and of the Iberian 'plaque idols' are very similar -almost identical- to the motifs figuring on spatial and territorial markers and on other plaque-shaped artefacts in Northamerican Indigenous societies. The -- Figure 3: Examples of technical and methodological ambiguities in Phenetics. This illustrates the dilemma caused by the classification of the species number 3, since it finds itself right in the centre of the distance that separates the sets A and B. Depe |
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Figure 4: Classification of characters in Phylogenetics, after (O'Brien and Lyman 2003, Figure 3.1.). Cladistics, in particular, only considers the apomorphic characters, specifically those known as synapomorphies (defined in the text). -- Figure 5: (a) Types of taxonomical groups, after (Kitching et al. 1998, Figure 1.8) -- and (b) types of characters considered in the construction of each of one, after (Kitching et al. 1998, Figure 1.10). Figure elaborated after (Kitching et al. 1998, Figur |
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Table 1: (a) Differences between the three taxonomic schools with respect to the types of characters used and the types of groups created -- and (b) Explicit comparison between Cladistics and Evolutionary taxonomy. Figure elaborated after (Ridley 1996, Tabl -- Daniel García Rivero -- Abstract -- Resumen -- A brief historiographical introduction to taxonomy -- On the concept of species -- On characters and units in taxonomy -- On the types of classification -- On the philosophical schools of classification -- Phenetics -- Cladistics -- Evolutionary taxonomy -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
This book collects the contributions to the symposium ""The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina"" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of ""On the Origin of Species"" |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Archaeology -- Argentina -- Philosophy
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Human evolution -- Argentina
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Physical anthropology -- Argentina
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Human evolution
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Physical anthropology
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Argentina
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Muscio, Hernán
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| ISBN |
9781784912703 |
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1784912700 |
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