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Introduction
1. Human, brain, mind
The emergence of Homo sapiens
Brain and Mind
The ratio of the brain and mind
Finding reason
IQ
Motivation of the mind
2. Socialization and cultural adaptation
Methods of cognition
Socialization and reason
The emergence of cultural adaptations
2. Socialization and cultural adaptation
Methods of cognition
Socialization and reason
The emergence of cultural adaptations
3. Cultural evolution of Homo sapiens
About evolution
Prerequisites for the evolution of living things
Evolution without genes
Culture and mentality
Clarification of the term «cultural evolution»
Functional adaptations of the brain
Culture and cultural evolution
Differences in human evolution from other species
4. The origins of cultural evolution
Information resource properties
The reasons for the emergence of cultural evolution
Correct division of labor
Overcoming intraspecific aggression
5. Replicators of culture
Replicators by R. Dawkins
New MEM replicators
MEMS are functional structures of the brain
On models in science
MEMs as models
6. Congenital, cultural MEMs, MEMnom
Congenital MEMS, instincts
Cultural MEMS
Cultural codes
MEMnom
A new definition of cultural evolution
7. Mechanisms of cultural inheritance
Institutions
Traditions
Writing, media, internet
8. Reflections on mentality
The concept of mentality
The stability of the mentality
Mentality and modernization of society
Modernization of one social unit
Mentality, economics, politics
9. Some «wrong» questions
Why didn’t monkeys become humans?
MEMS and Alzheimer’s disease
Why are parasites needed? Sakkulina
10. Selection of cultural evolution
Parallel structures of two evolutions
Old time interstate selection
Modeling the global selection of the old world
Interstate selection of modern times, globalization
11. Evolution and self-organization
Synergistic concept
Understanding of self-organization processes
Examples of self-organization
Social systems
12. Engineering and biological construction
Genes, environment, behavior
13. Freedom of coercion, manipulation
Manipulation or Violence?
Methods of manipulation
14. From autocracy to Marxism-Leninism
Autocracy in Russia and its inborn shortcomings
The failure of the autocracy
The emergence of Marxism
Claims to ML from the point of view of sociobiology
Lenin as he was
15. Reformatting of the Russian Empire
Social (cultural) track
The October coup that changed the channel of evolution
Transformation (reformatting) of the Russian Empire
A brief historical description of the PRI
Authorities
Two points of view on the October coup
The question of guilt for the October coup
16. Putinism from the point of view of sociobiology
Market relations and democracy
Nobody could do anything
Liberals and neoliberals
Why did it happen
Impossibility of evolution of elites
The book attempts to reconstruct the milestones of the evolutionary path that the Primate species Homo sapiens followed to create civilization. The final stage of the evolution of this species was cultural evolution, which turned it, which did not have any significant morphological advantages, into the dominant species on the Planet earth.
This became possible because the final stage of the evolution of Homo sapiens did not occur as the evolution of other species – due to the creation of some morphological advantages (fast legs or sharp fangs) for themselves, but due to behavior modification. Behavior modification became possible with some brain structure that appeared in our ancestors. The evolution of the brain provided, in the long run, great advantages for the species in survival and reproduction.
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However, 200 years after Newton, two «wise men» published the «Communist Manifesto» calling, on the basis of some philosophical ideas, to take up the modernization of social relations in human society.
Their philosophical ideas had nothing to do with biological concepts. They believed that human societies resemble plasticine, from which you can sculpt anything. A similar idea of the possibility of constructing social relations according to the wishes of the elite has survived in Russia to this day. These ideas became widespread in different societies, led to bloody revolutions and numerous victims.
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