Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Karim Baraghith -- Copyright page / Karim Baraghith -- Dedication / Karim Baraghith -- Personal Comment by the Author / Karim Baraghith -- Introduction Generalized Evolutionary Theory and the Micro-Macro Divide in the Social Sciences / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 1 Generalized Evolutionary Theory (GET) / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 2 Peculiarities and Advantages of Cultural Evolutionary Theory / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 3 Generalizing Evolution: Metaphor, Analogy, Unification or Reduction? / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 4 The Micro Level: Cultural Inheritance and Evolutionary Games / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 5 The Macro Level: Cultural Populations and Evolutionary Graphs / Karim Baraghith -- Chapter 6 The Synthesis: Linking Cultural Micro- and Macroevolution / Karim Baraghith -- Conclusion / Karim Baraghith -- List of Figures / Karim Baraghith -- Literature / Karim Baraghith.

Do social systems evolve similarly to biological ones and societies similarly to organisms? For some time now, an interdisciplinary paradigm has been developing in this regard: the Generalized Evolution Theory. After pointing out differences between biological and cultural evolution, as well as different inheritance strategies, the book proposes a philosophy of science classification of the different approaches in this vast and ever-growing field of research. It leads from generalized microevolution to generalized macroevolution and to their synthesis. As evolution favors groups with high internal cohesion, it will also favor strategies and reward agents responsible for this cohesion. In the long run, generalized evolution selects those populations that exhibit a higher density of interaction.

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