Mark:
Observing the human history, wars, conflicts, philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti observes that something went wrong in the evolution of human consciousness. .
While Animal Kingdom has the need to kill for the physiological needs, human wars and conflicts are primarily out of psychological insecurity (false sense of security or insecurity)...
Certainly, india ' s spiritual quest has given a direction to avoid conflicts despite failures in practice and reality.. As it happened to Christian faith too..
I guess, partly economics, partly human identity, religious, and linguistic systems used as instruments of economy and power have resulted in 5000 years and more of human conflicts, wars, and costing millions of lives..
Senthil
On Sep 20, 2014 10:38 AM, "Mark Kriger" <mark.kriger@bi.no> wrote:
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> Dear Victor,
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> This is a rather encompassing and, with effort, a likely rewarding investigation. Suggest you look for micro areas where you can create some initial shorter publications and contributions. Since this is the MSR list I am sure you are asking questions such as:
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> 'What roles do a spiritual orientation and values have in humankind developing the way it has?' And:
> 'What is the survival value of spirituality (and religion)?'
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> The closest organizationally oriented work I know to what you are looking at is the book 'Driven' by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria in 2002. It is an evolutionary approach to how human drives developed into group and organizational activities - written by two Harvard organizational theorists. Nohria is now the dean of Harvard Business School. There a lot of diverse sources in the book.
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> Best of luck in your endeavors! Do let me / us know how your project proceeds.
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> Dr. Mark Kriger
> Professor of Strategic Leadership
> Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
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> On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:10 AM, "Victor Z. Chen (EMGP)" <emgp.editor@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> I'm currently working to unfold a full evolutionary theory of global economic activities and their evolution (from 2 million BCE to present). To kick off this journey, I'm currently looking for major evolution patterns, processes, mechanisms, emerging technologies (e.g., non-verbal languages, speaking, symbiotic thoughts, etc.) and archeological/paleontological/anthropological evidence between 2 million and 50,000 BCE.
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>> This is the very first stage of social, organizational, and economic evolution of human activities. It begins with the emergence of group endurance running (presumably as a shared hunting strategy) as the first common human (homo) behavior that evolved homos from primates, as a direct result of natural selection (2 million BCE) (Bramble & Lieberman, 2004: 345). It ends with the emergence of long distance trade in Upper Paleolithic stage, enforced by reciprocal altruism (50,000 BCE) (Wade, 2006: 162), as the very beginning of more complex economic and transactional behaviors. The science behind this period serves as the primitive basis and a significant portion of our social psychology and behaviors today.
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>> Finding natural basis of social behaviors is an extremely difficult and yet highly rewarding work (Chabris et al., 2013). I'd appreciate if you could share with me any studies, archives, and evidence about this period to me. I also welcome opportunities to meet any individuals and institutions that are interested in the evolutionary approach of social, economic, and organizational science.
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>> Bramble, D.M., and Lieberman, D.E. 2004. Endurance running and the evolution of Homo. Nature, 432, 345-352.
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>> Chabris, C. F., Lee, J. J., Benjamin, D. J., Beauchamp, J. P., Glaeser, E. L., Borst, G., Pinker, S., and Laibson, D.I. 2013. Why it is hard to find genes associated with social science traits: Theoretical and empirical considerations. American Journal of Public Health, 103(S1), 152-166.
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>> Wade, N. 2006. Before the dawn: Recovering the lost history of our ancestors. New York, NY: The Penguin Press.
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