Social Sciences: Cognitive Science: Culture, Cognition, and Evolution

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	Home: Social Sciences: Cognitive Science: Culture, Cognition, and Evolution LINKS: 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. Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9987/ Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Evolution in the First Person http://hometown.aol.com/roberthamiltonr/myhomepage/ 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!" Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence http://www.brainchannels.com/ Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news. 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 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. 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"." 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.) The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture: http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Speed.htm 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. Cog Web http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography. Dan Sperber http://www.dan.sperber.com/ Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French. ICC http://icc.isr.umich.edu/ The International Culture & Cognition program is a multidisciplinary virtual institute devoted to exploring the interactions between mind and culture. Online papers and related resources organized by topic. The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind http://www.interdisciplines.org/coevolution Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.

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