- 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.
- Precis of origins of the modern mind - http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.donald.html
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.
- 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.
- 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!"
- 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.
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