Creatures of Norms as Uncanny Niche Constructors
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Creatures of Norms as Uncanny Niche Constructors
Original language description
Unlike other species, humans have not only tampered with their environment, but entirely rebuilt it. Moreover, along with the reshuffling of the existing elements of the environment and erecting brand new, artificial elements atop of them, 'virtual environments' have been brought into being, in which the physical barriers of the natural world are largely replaced or supplemented by artificial ones. What the artificial barriers of our 'virtual worlds' are made of are rules (understood as social institutions that can affect people as powerfully as physical restraints). However rules are also at the core of the human ability to pass on behavioral patterns. In this way, rules appear to be the true key to human distinctiveness - their emergence, i.e. the emergence of our ancestors' abilities to think in the 'normative mode', has endowed us with a complex package of distinctively human features, including the ability to develop culture and to build virtual niches.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP401%2F10%2F0146" target="_blank" >GAP401/10/0146: Man as a normative creature</a><br>
Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
Others
Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Knowledge, Value, Evolution
ISBN
978-1-84890-043-1
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
189-190
Publisher name
College Publications
Place of publication
London
Event location
Praha
Event date
Nov 23, 2009
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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