Categories related to Science: Social Sciences: Cognitive Science: Culture, Cognition, and Evolution: Science: Biology: Evolution (159) Science: Biology: Sociobiology (45) Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Historical Linguistics: Proto-Language (10) Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Evolutionary Psychology (418) Websites on Culture, Cognition, and Evolution: Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism 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"." Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news. The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation. Cog Web Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography. Cognitive science & literature & composition Writings applying cognitive science to the study of literature and composition, includings chapters froma book. Also includes links to other relevant material. Dan Sperber Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French. Evolution and Philosophy Kent Van Cleave examines the human mind and philosophy in light of evolutionary theories, themes, and processes. Metaethical functionalism is introduced. The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics "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 The International Paleopsychology Project 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. Language, Neoteny, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution Extensive collection of quotations on the evolution of language. Part of the Web Library of Excerpts: The Multidisciplinary Implications of Heterochronic Theory. The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture: Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd 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. Precis of origins of the modern mind 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. Psychology, culture, and evolution 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. The Thinking Meat Project Essays and weblog entries on various topics regarding human nature. Without Miracles: The Evolution, Acquisition, and Use of Language Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."
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