| 1. | 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.
arts.uwaterloo.ca |
| 3. | 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.
www.paleopsych.org |
| 9. | Evolution and Philosophy | | | Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.
ourworld.compuserve.com |
| 11. | 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.)
www.percepp.demon.co.uk |
| 12. | 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.
www.des.ucdavis.edu |
| 13. | Cog Web | | | Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
cogweb.ucla.edu |
| 14. | Dan Sperber | | | Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.
www.dan.sperber.com |
| 15. | ICC | | | Cognition program is a multidisciplinary virtual institute devoted to exploring the interactions between mind and culture. Online papers and related resources organized by topic.
icc.isr.umich.edu |
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