Author

Andie Rothenhäusler Institut für Geschichte, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT),
E-Mail: andie.rothenhaeusler@gmx.de

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Abstract English

In the 1970s and 1980s two new approaches to an evolutionary explanation of technology emerged: While a new generation of sociobiologists increasingly started to view animal and human artifacts as an ,extended phenotype’ of humankind historians and sociologists of technology found in an evolutionary genesis of technology a third way between technological determinism and a social construction of technology. This evolution of technology seemed able to explain multi-causal coherences in the genesis of technology applicably by using allegedly simple rules.

Keywords

Technological evolution, History of technology, Darwinism, Evolutionary algorithm

Citation

Andie Rothenhäusler “Begetting machinery II – Evolutionärer Algorithmus und technische Evolution,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol.3 (2011), 82 – 93, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1297, Pages: 12