| Directory > Science > Social Sciences > Cognitive Science > Culture, Cognition, and Evolution The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind
Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science
Foundation.
http://www.interdisciplines.org/coevolution
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ICC
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.
http://icc.isr.umich.edu/
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Dan Sperber
Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in
English and French.
http://www.dan.sperber.com/
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Cog Web
Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the
arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/
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Neandertals Lived Harmoniously
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.
http://www.marshill.org/neandertalMusicians_InsightArticle.htm
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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.
http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Speed.htm
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Motor theory of language
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.)
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/motheory.htm
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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"."
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html
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Without Miracles: The Development and Functioning of Thought
Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the
Second Darwinian Revolution."
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/g-cziko/without_miracles/11.html
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Evolution and Philosophy
Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an
evolutionary process.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KVC/evolphi.htm
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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
http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/
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Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence
Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research
news.
http://www.brainchannels.com/
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Evolution in the First Person
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!"
http://hometown.aol.com/roberthamiltonr/myhomepage/
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Gesture and language equivalence
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.
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/oporto.htm
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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.
http://www.humanevolution.net/a/language.html
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Cognitive science & literature & composition
Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature
and composition.
http://members.aol.com/jamesl4242/cogsci
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Darwin's dangerous disciple
Interview with Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, from Skeptic magazine.
http://www.skeptic.com/03.4.miele-dawkins-iv.html
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Origin of language
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.
http://members.aol.com/rmallott2/origin.htm
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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.
http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.donald.html
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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.
http://www.paleopsych.org/
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Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page
Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9987/
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Handbook of human symbolic evolution
Abstracts of a collection of papers edited by Andrew Lock and Charles Peters.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/hbook/start.htm
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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.
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
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