Handbook of evolution

Handbook of Evolution......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 14
1.1 Introduction......Page 16
1.2 Primate and Human Cognition......Page 18
1.3.1 Joint Attention......Page 20
1.3.2 Imitative Learning......Page 21
1.3.3 Linguistic Symbols and Cognitive Representation......Page 23
1.4 Nonhuman Primate Culture......Page 25
1.4.1 Japanese Macaque Potato Washing......Page 26
1.4.2 Chimpanzee Tool Use......Page 27
1.4.3 Chimpanzee Gestural Communication......Page 28
1.4.4 Nonhuman Primate Social Learning and Social Cognition......Page 30
1.4.5 Enculturated Apes......Page 31
1.5 Conclusions......Page 33
1.6 References......Page 34
2.1 Introduction......Page 40
2.2 The Equivalence Postulate......Page 42
2.3 Our Inborn World View......Page 44
2.3.1 Induction......Page 45
2.3.2 Reality......Page 47
2.3.4 The 3D Structure of Visual Perception......Page 48
2.4 The Cognitive Operator Theory......Page 50
2.5.1 Space......Page 52
2.5.2 The Arrow of Time......Page 53
2.5.3 Causality......Page 54
2.6 Induction and the Compressibility of Observational and Theoretical Terms......Page 55
2.7 Communication, Meaning, and the Compressibility of Semantic Terms......Page 57
2.8.1 Physical Extensions of Perceptions and the Notion of Reality......Page 60
2.8.2 Algorithmic Extensions of Mathematical Thinking......Page 63
2.9 Action, Perception, and the Role of \'Cyclic Variables\' in Cognitive Evolution......Page 68
2.10 Adaptation and Assimilation vs. Action and Perception......Page 71
2.11 Epistemological Autoreproduction......Page 74
2.12 Is Cultural/Scientific Evolution Really Lamarckian?......Page 77
2.13 Physical and Social Problem-Solving in Cognitive Evolution......Page 80
2.14 Summary......Page 84
2.15 References......Page 87
3.1 Introduction......Page 92
3.2 Identification through Language and its Impact on Culture Processes......Page 94
3.3 Variation and Variability: The Organizational Principle Par Excellence in Processes of Evolution......Page 97
3.4 Variation 1: Language and the Evolution of Communicational Skills......Page 100
3.5 Variation 2: Language and the Evolution of Linguistic Structures......Page 103
3.6 Variation 3: Language and the Evolution of Functional Variety......Page 111
3.7 Variation 4: Languages and their Genetic Affiliations......Page 116
3.8 Variation 5: Language Evolution and Linguistic Diversity......Page 123
3.9 Variation 6: Globalization and the Future of Language Evolution......Page 125
3.10 References......Page 130
4.1 Introduction......Page 136
4.2 Typologies of Societies......Page 145
4.3 Cultural Institutions in Social Evolution......Page 152
4.4 Causes of Social Evolution......Page 170
4.5 References......Page 179
5.1 Explaining Moral Behavior......Page 186
5.2 Deep Capacities......Page 187
5.3 Sociobiological Models of Altruism......Page 189
5.4 Kin Selection: Genetic Altruism and Moral Altruism......Page 191
5.5 An Evolutionary Model of Moral Behavior – Interpretation......Page 192
5.6 Early Moral Behavior......Page 194
5.7 Gene–Culture Coevolution......Page 196
5.8 Group Selection Reborn......Page 198
5.9 References......Page 202
6.1 Introduction......Page 206
6.2.1 The Idealist Model......Page 207
6.2.2 The Realist Model......Page 209
6.2.3 The Ethological Model......Page 211
6.2.4 The Cybernetic Model......Page 214
6.3.1 Human (and Animal) Nature in Politics......Page 217
6.3.2 Neo-Darwinism, Sociobiology, and Political Theory......Page 219
6.3.3 The Synergism Hypothesis......Page 224
6.3.4 Explaining Political Evolution......Page 228
6.3.5 Explaining Political Devolution......Page 231
6.4.1 Animal Politics......Page 235
6.4.2.1 The Rise of the Australopithecines......Page 238
6.4.2.2 Enter Homo Erectus......Page 241
6.4.2.3 The Emergence of Homo Sapiens......Page 243
6.4.3.1 Prime Mover Theories......Page 245
6.4.3.2 The Case for the Synergism Hypothesis......Page 250
6.5 The Future of Politics......Page 255
6.6 References......Page 256
7.1 Introduction: Economics and Biology......Page 268
7.2 The Evolution of the Human Economy......Page 270
7.2.1 Hunter–Gatherers: Humanity\'s First Two Million Years......Page 271
7.2.2 The First Divide: The Rise of Agriculture......Page 273
7.2.2.1 Intensification of Production and Environmental Decline: The Tehuacán Valley......Page 274
7.2.2.2 Intensification of Production and Environmental Decline: Easter Island......Page 277
7.2.3 The Second Divide: The Rise of Industrial Society......Page 278
7.2.3.1 Intensification of Production and Environmental Decline: Nauru......Page 280
7.3 Theories of the Evolution of the Industrial Economy......Page 281
7.4 Economic Man and Economic Change......Page 284
7.4.1 Methodological Individualism......Page 285
7.4.3 Marginal Valuation......Page 287
7.4.4 Consumer Sovereignty and International Trade......Page 288
7.4.5 The Evolutionary Roots of Economic Man......Page 289
7.5 Contemporary Evolutionary Economics......Page 290
7.6.1 Beyond the Selfish Gene......Page 293
7.6.2 The Evolution of Cooperation and Multilevel Selection......Page 295
7.6.3 Social Cognition and Economic Theory......Page 296
7.6.4 Evolutionary Game Theory......Page 298
7.6.5 Cooperation as Evolutionary Progress......Page 299
7.7 Coevolution, Evolutionary Theory, and Economic Policy......Page 301
7.8 References......Page 304
8.1 Introduction......Page 314
8.2 Historical Background......Page 315
8.3 Objective Scientific Knowledge as a Break with the Ratiomorphic Past......Page 319
8.4 The Systematic Relationship of Empirical-Evolutionary Epistemology and Meta-Empirical or Pure \'Transcendental\' Epistemology......Page 322
8.5 Information and Knowledge......Page 324
8.6 Science as an Evolutionary Information System......Page 336
8.7 The \'Law of Three Stages\' of the Evolution of Method......Page 339
8.8 References......Page 345
Index......Page 348