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SUMMARY:Thinking evolutionary laws: technological trajectories and anthrop
 ological regularities - Valentine Roux\, CNRS Director of Research\, Paris
DTSTART:20231130T160000Z
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CONTACT:Simon Carrignon
DESCRIPTION:In social sciences\, it is possible to think of evolutionary l
 aws in terms of regularities. By regularities I mean recurrentcross-cultur
 al phenomena that can be observed in the present and in the past\, and who
 se emergence can be explained and\, therefore\, the conditions for their a
 ctualization characterized\, in present-day contexts\, using an interdisci
 plinary approach. \nThe study of the conditions for the generation of regu
 larities involves different scales of observation\, starting with the indi
 vidual\, and then examining how an individual process can generate atempor
 al regularities on a group scale. \nUnderstanding the mechanisms that gene
 rate regularities in turn makes it possible to explain past situations\, w
 ithout obliterating socio-cultural and historical particularities. \nI wil
 l discuss in these terms some aspects of the evolution of technologies. It
  is marked by recurring phenomena\, which will be reduced\, for the purpos
 e of clarity\, to the stability of technical traditions and their intrinsi
 c variability\, on the one hand\, and to changes brought about by innovati
 on or borrowing\, on the other. Characterizing the conditions for their re
 currence reveals true "laws" rooted in psycho-social universals.\n\n
LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room
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