Human choice: the genetic code for social development.
A comprehensive theory of social development is needed that treats human beings as the center of the development process and integrates all its economic, political, social, and cultural factors. Drawing a wide range of intriguing parallels with biological evolution, the authors describe the central...
| Publicado en: | Futures Vol. 31; no. 9/10; pp. 959 - 971 |
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Elsevier Science
November/December 1999
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