Cumulative Cultural Evolution and the Origins of LanguageBiological Theory - Tập 11 - Trang 173-186 - 2016
Kim Sterelny
In this article, I present a substantive proposal about the timing and nature of the final stage of the evolution of full human language, the transition from so-called “protolanguage” to language, and on the origins of a simple protolanguage with structure and displaced reference; a proposal that depends on the idea that the initial expansion of communicative powers in our lineage involved a much ...... hiện toàn bộ
Complexity, Hypersets, and the Ecological Perspective on Perception-ActionBiological Theory - Tập 2 - Trang 23-36 - 2015
Anthony Chemero, M. T. Turvey
The ecological approach to perception-action is unlike the standard approach in several respects. It takes the animal-in-its-environment as the proper scale for the theory and analysis of perception-action, it eschews symbol based accounts of perception-action, it promotes self-organization as the theory-constitutive metaphor for perception-action, and it employs self-referring, non-predicative de...... hiện toàn bộ
The Unreliability of High Human Heritability Estimates and Small Shared Effects of Growing Up in the Same FamilyBiological Theory - Tập 2 - Trang 387-397 - 2015
Peter J. Taylor
Estimates of a trait’s heritability can be used to predict the advance through selective breeding in agriculture and the laboratory where researchers can replicate varieties and locations. These conditions do not apply to human populations, yet considerable attention is still given to high heritability and to small effects of family members growing up together relative to differences within famili...... hiện toàn bộ