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The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

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Mathematics is a kind of primate behavior as languages, musical systems and penal codes are.

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Leslie White

Born: January 19, 1900
Died: March 31, 1975 (aged 75)
Bio: Leslie Alvin White was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of theories of cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Known for:
  1. The evolution of culture (1959)
  2. The science of culture (1949)
  3. Modern Capitalist Culture
  4. The pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico (1935)
  5. The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico (1962)

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