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Hominisation / Sociobiology

Robin Allott

Evolution and Culture: The Missing Links

Francisco J. Ayala

The Difference of Being Human

Michael Bauwens

Spirituality and Technology: Exploring the Relationship

Christophe Boesch / Michael Tomasello

Chimpanzee and Human Cultures

Samuel Bowles / Herbert Gintis

The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity: Cooperation in Heterogeneous
Populations

Boyd, Robert, Richerson, Peter J.

The Evolution of Subjective Commitment to Groups: A Tribal Instincts Hypothesis

William H. Calvin

Pumping Up Intelligence

The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality

Competing for Consciousness: A Darwinian Mechanism at an Appropriate Level of Explanation

The Emergence of Intelligence

The Ascent of Mind. Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence

The Throwing Madonna

Jeremy I. M. Carpendale

Constructing an Understanding of Mind: The Development of Children’s Social Understanding within Social Interaction

Valery Chalidze

Hierarchical Instinct and Human Evolution. Socio-biological approach

Al Cheyne

Psychology, Culture and Evolution

Leda Cosmides/ John Tooby

Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer

Marta Crivos/Fernando Tula Molina

Anthropology and Evolution

Arthur C. Custance

Genesis and Early Man

Two Men Called Adam

Lloyd deMause

Childhood and Cultural Evolution

Theodosius Dobzhanski

Ethics and Values in Biological and Cultural Evolution

R.I.M. Dunbar

Co-evolution of Neocortex Size, Group Size and Language in Humans

Ernst Fehr / Urs Fischbacher

Social Norms and human cooperation

Gil-White, Francisco J. / Richerson P. J.

Large-scale human cooperation and conflict.

Robert Gilman

The Human Story

Herbert Gintis et. al.

Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

Maria Luiza Glycerio and Janice B. Paulsen

Is Noogenesis Progressing?

Mario F. Heilmann

Social Evolution and social influence: selfishness, deception, self-deception

Daniel Kriegman / Charles Knight

Social Evolution, Psychoanalysis, and Human Nature

Laland, Kevin N. / Odling-Smee, John

Niche Construction, Biological Evolution and Cultural Change

Andrew Lehman / Marcia Bernsten

Evolution and the Structure
of Health and Disease. A Unifying Theory of Biology and Culture with Medical Implications

Thomas Merlin

Precis of Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Eliana Montuori/Juan Carlos Garelli

Brief Outline of the Theory of Attachment

John Orbell

Evolution, Cooperation & Ethics

Peter J. Richerson / Robert Boyd

The Evolution of Human Ultra-sociality

Richerson, Peter J. / Robert Boyd

Built for Speed: Pleistocene Climate Variation and he Origin of Human Culture

Richerson, Peter J. / Robert Boyd

Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition

Richerson, Peter J. / Boyd Robert

Evolution: The Darwinian Theory of Social Change, An Homage to Donald T. Campbell

Richerson, Peter J. / Boyd Robert

Built for Speed, not for Comfort. Darwinian Theory and Human Culture

Richerson, Peter J. / Boyd Robert

The evolution of human ultra-sociality

Angel Sanchez / José A. Cuesta

Altruism may arise from individual selection

Jeffrey P. Schloss

Evolutionary Perspectives on other regard

Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn

Meat Eating and Hominid Evolution

Linda Stone

The Evolution of Kinship and Gender

Richard F. Taflinger

Taking Advantage Social Basis of Human Behavior

Human Cultural Evolution

David Sloan Wilson/Elliot Sober

Re-introducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences

Richard Wrangham

The Raw and the Stolen
Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins

Thomas Wynn

Archaeology and Cognitive Evolution

Journals and other Resources

The Evolutionist

The Evolution of Man

Human Behavior and Evolution Society

Evolutionary Psychology

Paleoanthopology

Psychology, Culture and Evolution

General Theoretical Approaches and Models	Memetics
Sociobiological Perspectives and Hominisation	Cyberevolution and the "Global Brain"
Evolutionary Stages and Transitions of Societies.	Newsgroups
Evolutionary Change within Modern Societies	General Resources

Wikipedia	Article: Unilineal evolution Article: sociocultural Evolution
Corina Herron Linden I David Wallerstein	Essentials of Evolutionary Thought in the Social Science. An Annotated Bibliography
Tom Abel	Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Cultural and Ecological Dynamics
Carla Aubry Kradolfer	Evolution gleich Fortschritt?
Australian Broadcasting Corporation	The Descent of Man
Baldwin, James Mark	Mental Development in the Child and the Race
Richard Beardsworth	From a Genealogy of Matter to a Politics of Memory: Stiegler's Thinking of Technics
Robert Bierstedt	Herbert Spencer (1959)
Charles Birch	Participatory Evolution: The Drive of Creation
Samuel Bowles	Various Papers
Robert Boyd	Why culture is common, but Cultural Evolution is Rare
Boyd, Robert, Richerson, Peter J.	Why Culture is Common, but Cultural Evolution is Rare
Kelly Chakov	Nineteen century social evolutionism
Phillip J. Cunningham	Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere
Charles Darwin	The Origins of Species The Descent of Man The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
Richard Dawkins	Various Papers
Fritjof Capra	The Systems View of Life
Marquis de Condorcet	Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain
Peter A. Corning	Synergy and Self-Organization in the Evolution of Complex Systems
John Durant	A Critical-Historical Perspective on the Argument about Evolution and Creation
Karl Eibl	Strukturierte Nichtwelten. Zur Biologie der Poesie
Encyclopaedia Britannica	Article: Evolution Article: Cultural Evolution
Agner Fog	Cultural Selection Cultural r/k Selection Computer simulation of biological evolution in structured populations
Liane M. Gabora	Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system: A tentative scenario for the evolution of culture The Beer Can Theory of Creativity
Judith L. Gillies	Cross-cultural Analysis
Vera Haag	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Visionär oder Evolutionsmystiker
Francis Heylighen/Donald T. Campbell	Selection of Organization at the Social Level: obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions
Geoffrey M. Hodgson	Is Social Evolution Lamarckian or Darwinian?
Elizabeth A. Johnson	Does God Play Dice? Divine Providence and Chance
John Jay & Jesse R. Kineman	Non-mechanical ontology in the explanation of organism and evolution
Pjotr Kropotkin	Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution (1902)
Kevin L. Laland	Niche Construction, Biological Evolution and Cultural Change
Andrew Lehman/ Marcia Bernsten	Evolution and the Structure of Health and Disease
Humberto Mariotti	Autopoiesis, Culture and Society
Mary Midgley	Evolution as Religion: A Comparison of Prophecies
Jim Moore	Carrying Capacity, Cycles and Culture
Heiner Mühlmann	The Nature of Cultures
Milo Rau	Persönliche und sachliche Kultur. Kulturelle Evolution zwischen Individualisierung und Sozialisierung
Peter J. Richerson	Evolution: The Darwinian Theory of Social Change, An Homage to Donald T. Campbell
Elisabet Sahtouris	Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution
Stephen K. Sanderson	Evolutionism and its Critics
Herbert Spencer	First principles (1862)
Sperber, Dan and Lawrence Hirschfeld	Culture, Cognition, and Evolution
Jean Staune	Les Humains associés. Que faut-il dire de l'Homme?
John Steward	Evolutions's Arrow
Teilhard de Chardin	Citations
Valentin Turchin	The Phenomenon of Science
John Wilkins	Darwiniana
Robert Wright	Nonzero. The Logic of Human Destiny

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