Gerhard Lenski's scientific contributions

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... On the other hand, political economy tended to reduce the environment to a background of little import to social dynamics. This was especially the case of dependency and world-system theory, which understood the expansion of capitalism as a process that overruns local specificities (one could say, adaptations to specific environments), ultimately lumping together cultural differences into one single overarching system (Cardoso 1972;Wallerstein 1974;Amin 1976). First-generation PE tackled these problems in two ways: ...