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Dan Sperber
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Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.
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The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics
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"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
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Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism
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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"."
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Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence
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Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.
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Cog Web
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Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
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Cognitive science & literature & composition
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Writings applying cognitive science to the study of literature and composition, includings chapters froma book. Also includes links to other relevant material.
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Evolution and Philosophy
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Kent Van Cleave examines the human mind and philosophy in light of evolutionary theories, themes, and processes. Metaethical functionalism is introduced.
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Evolution in the First Person
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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!"
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Language, Neoteny, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution
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Extensive collection of quotations on the evolution of language. Part of the Web Library of Excerpts: The Multidisciplinary Implications of Heterochronic Theory.
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Psychology, culture, and evolution
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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.
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The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind
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Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.
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The International Paleopsychology Project
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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.
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The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture:
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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.
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The Thinking Meat Project
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Essays and blog entries on various topics regarding human nature.
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