%0 Journal Article %T Begetting machinery II ¨C Evolution rer Algorithmus und technische Evolution %A Rothenh£¿usler %A Andie %J Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts %D 2011 %I KIT Scientific Publishing %X 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. %K Technological evolution %K History of technology %K Darwinism %K Evolutionary algorithm %U http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/spatialconcepts_article_1297.pdf