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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"."
 
Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence - Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.
 
Cognitive science & literature & composition - Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature and composition.
 
Darwin's dangerous disciple - Interview with Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, from Skeptic magazine.
 
Evolution and Philosophy - Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.
 
Evolution in cultural and natural systems - This work distinguishes itself from other models of cultural evolution by its explicit representation and understanding of human groups within environments.
 
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!"
 
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.
 
Handbook of human symbolic evolution - Abstracts of a collection of papers edited by Andrew Lock and Charles Peters.
 
Intelligence: Evolution and Uses. - Topics include how dreams and religion might have emerged; human limitations and bigotry; the chances of human-level intelligence evolving.
 
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.
 
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.)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page - Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images.
 
Sperber, Dan - Anthropology, philosophy of language (CREA, Paris, France)
 
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
 
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.
 
 

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