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Psychology, culture, and evolution - http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
Site has three sections: the first is concerned with the evolution of the human capacity to construct signs; the second deals with Cultural-Historical Psychology; the third concerns theories and arguments about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. |
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Evolution and Philosophy - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KVC/evolphi.htm
Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process. |
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Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence - http://www.brainchannels.com/
Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news. |
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Evolution in cultural and natural systems - http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/abeltd/cultevol.htm
This work distinguishes itself from other models of cultural evolution by its explicit representation and understanding of human groups within environments. |
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Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html
Short annotated bibliography and link list related to theories of the global brain. "Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a "global brain"." |
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Darwin's dangerous disciple - http://www.skeptic.com/03.4.miele-dawkins-iv.html
Interview with Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, from Skeptic magazine. |
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Motor theory of language - http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/motheory.htm
The motor theory proposes that language evolved as an exaptation from the existing complex brain system for motor control. (This is a Powerpoint presentation - link to a free viewer provided.) |
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Neandertals Lived Harmoniously - http://www.apnet.com/inscight/04031997/grapha.htm
A new analysis of what is believed to the world's oldest musical instrument has produced a noteworthy result: Neandertals may have used the same seven-note scale that forms the basis of Western music. |
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Dan Sperber - http://perso.club-internet.fr/sperber/
Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French. |
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The International Paleopsychology Project - http://www.paleopsych.org/
A multi-disciplinary group of scientists dedicated to mapping out the evolution of complexity, sociality, perception, and mentation from the first 10-32 second of the Big Bang to the present. |
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Language, Neoteny, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution - http://www.humanevolution.net/a/language.html
Extensive collection of quotations on the evolution of language. Part of the Web Library of Excerpts: The Multidisciplinary Implications of Heterochronic Theory. |
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Evolution in the First Person - http://hometown.aol.com/roberthamiltonr/myhomepage/index.html
New ideas are the method of evolution of man. How this happens is a social phenomena rooted in evolutionary principles. "Contrary to appearances, the great mythological archetypal themes are about human evolution!" |
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The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics - http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/
"The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics." Online book |
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Origin of language - http://members.aol.com/rmallott2/origin.htm
Paper by Robin Allott. The emergence of language has been the result of a process of mosaic evolution, with diverse faculties found in animals (particularly in birds) coming together in the human and through a radical change in brain connections giving rise to language integrated with the motor system. |
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Gesture and language equivalence - http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/oporto.htm
Language and gesture are both motor activities controlled by the cerebral motor programs which generate all bodily activity. The equivalence of word structures and gestures is demonstrated by animations. |
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The Pleistocene and the origins of human culture: - http://carrera.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Speed.htm
Paper in which the authors argue that the specific mechanism by which humans mastered the Pleistocene is our capacity to evolve adaptations to the variation of Plio-Pleistocene environments via cultural traditions. |
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Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9987/
Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images. |
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Precis of origins of the modern mind - http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.donald.html
The central hypothesis in this paper is that there were three major cognitive transformations by which the modern human mind emerged over several million years: 1) mimetic skill and autocueing, 2) lexical invention, 3) externalization of memory. |
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Cognitive science & literature & composition - http://members.aol.com/jamesl4242/cogsci
Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature and composition. |
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Without Miracles: The Development and Functioning of Thought - http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/g-cziko/without_miracles/11.html
Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution." |