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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"."

Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence - http://www.brainchannels.com/
Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.

Cognitive science & literature & composition - http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001/cogsci/index.shtml
Writings applying cognitive science to the study of literature and composition, including chapters from a book. Also includes links to other relevant material.

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.

Evolution and Philosophy - http://www.kentvancleave.com/Evolphi/evolphi.htm
Kent Van Cleave examines the human mind and philosophy in light of evolutionary theories, themes, and processes. Metaethical functionalism is introduced.

http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ - 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.

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.

Precis of origins of the modern mind - http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/66/bbs00000566-00/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.

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.

The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind - http://www.interdisciplines.org/coevolution
Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.

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

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.

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.

The Thinking Meat Project - http://www.thinkingmeat.com/
Essays and weblog entries on various topics regarding human nature.

Without Miracles: The Evolution, Acquisition, and Use of Language - http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/wm/11.html
Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."

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