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- 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 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
- 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.
- Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence - Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.
- Evolution and Philosophy - Kent Van Cleave examines the human mind and philosophy in light of evolutionary theories, themes, and processes. Metaethical functionalism is introduced.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind - Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.
- Dan Sperber - Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dual inheritance theory - Dual inheritance theory, (DIT), sometimes called gene/culture coevolution, posits that humans are products of the interaction between genetic evolution and cultural evolution. DIT assumes that culture (including cultural transmission and cultural evolution) is both influenced by and constrained by genes via psychological adaptations and that culture, in turn, contributes to selection pressures on genes.
- Unilineal evolution - Unilineal evolution (also referred to as classical social evolution(ism)) is a 19th century social theory about the evolution of societies and cultures. It was composed of many competing theories by various sociologists and anthropologists, who believed that Western culture is the contemporary pinnacle of social evolution.
- Cultural cognition - Cultural cognition refers to the tendency of individuals to conform their beliefs about disputed matters of fact to values that define their cultural identities. Growing out of work done by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky into culture and risk perception, research into cultural cognition integrates empirical findings in anthropology, social psychology, and political science.
- Lambayeque culture - Lambayeque culture (part of the Sican Culture) arose in the 8th century, at the end of the Second Horizon, as one more "little town" of the north coast of Peru, when Huari was still an empire full of wealth and splendour. 100 to 150 years later, Huari disappeared off the map, but this little ...
- Simon M. Kirby - Simon M. Kirby is a British computational linguist, currently Reader in the Evolution of Language and Cognition at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Director of the Graduate School, and Programme Director for the MSc in the Evolution of Language and Cognition.