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What evolves in the evolution of social learning?
Social learning is fundamental to social life across the animal kingdom, but we still know little about how natural selection has shaped social learning abilities on a proximate level. Sometimes, complex social learning phenomena can be entirely explained by Pavlovian … Continue reading
Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality
Diverse lines of theoretical and empirical research are converging on the notion that human evolution has been substantially influenced by the interaction of our cultural and genetic inheritance systems. The application of this culture-gene coevolutionary approach to understanding human social … Continue reading
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Genes, Mind, And Culture: The Coevolutionary Process
A classic on Human Sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. In this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the … Continue reading
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Evolution in Mind: Evolutionary Dynamics, Cognitive Processes, and Bayesian Inference
Evolutionary theory describes the dynamics of population change in settings affected by reproduction, selection, mutation, and drift. In the context of human cognition, evolutionary theory is most often invoked to explain the origins of capacities such as language, metacognition, and spatial reasoning, framing them … Continue reading
Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and Change in Socio-Economic Systems
Book – The aim for this book is to offer stimulus to those wishing to engage with the concepts and tools provided by the emerging paradigm of thought on complexity and at the same time to foster new debate on co-evolutionary issues within … Continue reading
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How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution
The extravagant splendor of the animal kingdom can’t be explained by natural selection alone — so how did it come to be? Numerous species have conspicuous, metabolically costly and physically burdensome sexual ornaments, as biologists call them. Think of the … Continue reading
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Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution
This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, it uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about … Continue reading
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Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition
This book is the end result of an interdisciplinary project organized by the University of Sheffield. They selected a distinguished group of scientists and philosophers and brought them together for a series of workshops and a final conference. The intention … Continue reading
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The hunt for human nature
We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence. By describing how and why humans had become the dominant species on the planet, these scientists saw themselves as rescuing … Continue reading
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Human Parent-Child Relationships from an Evolutionary Perspective
In this article, a proximate conception of parental investment for humans is developed. Parenting investment is introduced as a part of life histories, specifying the optimization of reproductive success in terms of inclusive fitness. Contextual, parental, and children’s characteristics that … Continue reading
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