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PRONUNCIATION OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION

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Social evolution is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOCIAL EVOLUTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Social evolution

Social evolution is a subdiscipline of evolutionary biology that is concerned with social behaviors that have fitness consequences for individuals other than the actor. Social behaviors can be categorized according to the fitness consequences they entail for the actor and recipient. ▪ Mutually beneficial – a behavior that increases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient ▪ Selfish – a behavior that increases the direct fitness of the actor, but the recipient suffers a loss ▪ Altruistic – a behavior that increases the direct fitness of the recipient, but the actor suffers a loss ▪ Spiteful – a behavior that decreases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient This classification was proposed by W. D. Hamilton. He proposes that natural selection favors mutually beneficial or selfish behaviors. Hamilton's insight was to show how kin selection could explain altruism and spite. Social evolution is also often regarded as evolution of social systems and structures. In 2010, famed Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, a founder of modern sociobiology, proposed a new theory of social evolution.

Definition of social evolution in the English dictionary

The definition of social evolution in the dictionary is the process of social development from an early simple type of social organization to one that is complex and highly specialized.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOCIAL EVOLUTION

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOCIAL EVOLUTION

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Translation of «social evolution» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION

Find out the translation of social evolution to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of social evolution from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «social evolution» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

社会进化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

evolución social
570 millions of speakers

English

social evolution
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामाजिक विकास
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

التطور الاجتماعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

социальная эволюция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

evolução social
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামাজিক বিবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´évolution sociale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Evolusi sosial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sozialen Evolution
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

社会の発展
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사회 진화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Evolusi sosial
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tiến hóa xã hội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமூக பரிணாமம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामाजिक उत्क्रांती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Toplumsal gelişme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

evoluzione sociale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Rozwój społeczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соціальна еволюція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

evoluție socială
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κοινωνική εξέλιξη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

sosiale evolusie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

social evolution
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

sosial evolusjon
5 millions of speakers

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The term «social evolution» is regularly used and occupies the 65.087 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about social evolution

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOCIAL EVOLUTION»

Discover the use of social evolution in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to social evolution and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Social Evolution in Ants
This text presents an overview of the current state of scientific knowledge about social evolution in ants and shows how studies on ants have contributed to an understanding of many fundamental topics in behavioural ecology and evolutionary ...
Andrew F. G. Bourke, 1995
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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the ...
Mathematical Models of Social Evolution equips behaviorists and evolutionary biologists with the mathematical knowledge to truly understand the models on which their research depends.
Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, 2008
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Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean
Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty tons. With this book, Hal Whitehead gives us a clearer picture of the ecology and social life of sperm whales than we have ever had before.
Hal Whitehead, 2003
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States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National ...
The national governments of Central America were constructed between 1840 and 1900, a time when coffee was transformed from a botanical curiosity to the region's most important export.
Robert Gregory Williams, 1994
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Principles of Social Evolution
Investigates and sets out the common principles of social evolution operating across all taxa and levels of biological organisation.
Andrew F.G. Bourke, 2011
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Social Evolution
Draws on philosophies of history from outside the Euro-American tradition to suggest other ways of approaching human history
Mark Pluciennik, 2005
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Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution
'Public Corruption' is a stimulating and entertaining book about a daunting problem: the influence on public corruption of the changing nature of warfare.
R. R. Neild, 2002
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Dunnock behaviour and social evolution
In this book Nick Davies gives a full account of the mating systems of the dunnock or hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, which include pairs, a male with twofemales, two males with one female, and several males with several females.
Nicholas B. Davies, 1992
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Rethinking Social Evolution: The Perspective from ...
The focus of Rousseau's enquiry is "middle-range" societies - a vast category between hunter-gatherers and states.
Jérôme Rousseau, 2006
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Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution: ...
Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, this volume illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange.
Talcott Parsons, Leon H. Mayhew, 1985

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOCIAL EVOLUTION»

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Study considers how coalition-building by monkeys relates to …
"How, why and when these behaviors arose among primates may tell us something about later hominid (including human) social evolution." She explains that ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
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EO Wilson Proposes New Theory of Social Evolution
Kin selection made sense of this by targeting evolution at shared genes, and ... It was invoked to help explain social and cooperative behavior across the animal ... «Wired News, Aug 10»

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