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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

In the social sciences, there is substantial literature based on the use of optima to deduce social, population and economic dynamics. The constructal approach of this book links social sciences with physics, biology and engineering.

... THEORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION ; OR , GENERAL LAWS OF INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS . OBJECT AND THE general results of the last volume may be thus summed up ; -the normal type of Human Existence is one of complete unity . All progress ...

In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along strikingly similar lines throughout the world.

... SOCIAL STATICS , OR THE ABSTRACT THEORY OF HUMAN ORDER . For Preface and its Appendices see vol . iv . General ... DYNAMICS , OR THE GENERAL THEORY OF HUMAN PROGRESS . Philosophy of History . Preface ix Appendix to Preface : 1. Syllabus of a ...