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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.
- Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.
- Interview with Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, from Skeptic magazine.
- 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
- 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!"
- 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.
- 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, langu
- Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images.
- Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."
- 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.
- 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.
- Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature and composition.
- Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.
- 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 r
- "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
- 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.
- Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
- Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.

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