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- Title
- On human evolution in history : the case of France
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- International journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, Vol. 6, No. 7, (2012), p.51-61
- Publisher
- Common Ground
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Baker, David
- Description
- A history of France from the fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution employed population theories of secular cycles, cultural evolution, and collective learning. It is a Big History project supervised by the founder of the discipline, David Christian, and it is written in collaboration with several theorists from the natural sciences. It uses population-thinking to search for broad trends that might explain historical events, the rise and fall of empires, and technological progress. It maps a trajectory of historical processes from the birth of France to the modern age, and takes the controversial step of attempting to predict where that trajectory may be going in the future. This may be of direct use to those who will face population pressure and environmental crises in the later twenty-first century. It challenges many prejudices the historical discipline currently holds against collaboration between the human and natural sciences, and encourages specialists to place their work in a wider context. The history itself is chronological, and follows the periods of rise and decline in France, and explains various phenomena in human development for which there is currently no clear explanation.
- Description
- 11 page(s)
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- Agriculture
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- Big History
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- Early Modern
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- Ecology
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- Evolution
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- France
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- Human Development
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- Le Roy Ladurie
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- Malthus
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- C.P. Snow
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- Cliodynamics
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- Collective Learning
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- Cultural Evolution
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- Culture
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- Darwin
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- David Christian
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- Demographics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History, Politics and International Relations
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/174043
- Identifier
- ISSN:1833-1882
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-84859508040
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright Common Ground and The Author/s. Article originally published in International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 7, p. 51-61. This version archived on behalf of the author/s and is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission must be sought from the publisher to republish or reproduce or for any other purpose.
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