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O Potrzebie Jednolitej I Przyrodniczej Teorii Zmian Kulturowych

As an understanding of biological evolution integrated all biological sciences and allowed to achieve in 50 years enormous progress in understanding the nature, as understanding the mechanisms of cultural evolution and building its overall model, that verifying the detailed situations too, can push the new tracks humanities and social sciences. Although finally emerged the methodological tools needed to study complex systems, especially computer simulations, the humanities, the set of sciences of extended phenotype Homo sapiens, are currently in the initial exploration phase of the new paradigm and still not worked out the common theory that would act as a general framework. First of all, such a theory would have to explain the process of cultural evolution, taking into account the multilevel structure and operating in various time scales of the dynamics, and thus integrate the description of a phenomenon that researchers have camped in many areas of the humanities. However, the exi...