1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005489360203316

Autore

COURTER, Gini

Titolo

La grande guida Office 2000 / Gini Courter, Annette Marquis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Jackson Libri, 1999

ISBN

88-256-1285-0

Descrizione fisica

845 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

MARQUIS, Annette

Disciplina

005.369

Soggetti

Microelaboratori

Collocazione

000 005.369 COU

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458961203321

Autore

Kronfeldner Maria E.

Titolo

Darwinian creativity and memetics / / Maria Kronfeldner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

0-367-87220-X

1-84465-486-9

1-317-54492-7

1-315-72910-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Acumen research editions

Disciplina

576.82

Soggetti

Social evolution

Creative ability

Memetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"First published 2011 by Acumen"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Preface ; 1 Light will be thrown ; 2 Darwinian principles ; 3 The origin of novelty ; 4 Guided variation ; 5 The units of culture ; 6 Memes or minds ; 7 Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Maria Kronfeldner examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to creativity and the theory of memes. The first claims that creativity is based on a Darwinian process of blind variation and selection, while the latter claims that culture is based on and explained by units - memes - that are similar to genes. Both theories try to describe and explain mind and culture by applying Darwinism by way of analogies. Kronfeldner shows that the analogies involved in these theories lead to claims that give either wrong or at least no new des