New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution

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The Social Brain on the Internet

In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction. I will show that time, in particular, has a significant effe ...  عرض المزيد

Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche

Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche. Analysis of hunter-gatherer ethnologies confirms unprecedented levels of egal ...  عرض المزيد

Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level

I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. Results from this paradigm demonstrate that discussion between the partners is necessary and sufficient for creating an advantage for the ...  عرض المزيد

Experiencing Language

The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. Was the evolution of language in our lineage possible because early hominines were emotionally different from their ancestors, and, if so, in ...  عرض المزيد

Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language

The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door to ruinous free-riding and deception. This paper will locate and partially solve that problem within a framework explaining the ev ...  عرض المزيد