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Title:

Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition / edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt.

Publisher:

The MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social evolution.
Evolution (Biology)--Social aspects.
Human evolution--Philosophy.
Cultural fusion.
Cognition and culture.
Biological Evolution.
Adaptation, Biological.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Cognition--physiology.
Cultural Evolution.

Other Authors:

Caporael, Linnda R., editor of compilation.
Griesemer, James R., editor of compilation.
Wimsatt, William C., editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reproduction and the scaffolded development of hybrids / James R. Griesemer -- Evolution, groups, and scaffolded minds / Linnda R. Caporael -- Entrenchment and scaffolding : an architecture for a theory of cultural change / William C. Wimsatt -- Excitable media in medias res : how physics scaffolds metazoan development and evolution / Stuart A. Newman -- Communication and the evolution of cognition / James A. Evans -- Models as scaffolds for understanding / Jeffrey C. Schank, Christopher J. May, and Sanjay S. Joshi -- Stress in mind : a stress response hypothesis of cognitive evolution / Pamela Lyon -- Onwards and upwards with the extended mind : from individual to collective epistemic action / Georg Theiner -- Scaffolding on core cognition / Christophe Heintz -- Symbols as scaffolding / Colin Allen -- Technological scaffoldings for the evolution of culture and cognition / Sergio F. Mart©Ưnez -- Some problems of analyzing cultural evolution / Elihu M. Gerson -- Scaffolding in economics, management, and the design of technologies / Johann Peter Murmann -- The reproduction of the social : a developmental system approach / Iddo Tavory, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka -- Biocultural co-construction of brain plasticity across the life span : from cognitive training to neurotransmitters / Shu-Chen Li -- Footholds and handholds : scaffolding cognition and career / Barbara Horberg Wimsatt -- Developing scaffolds : an epilogue / James R. Griesemer, Linnda R. Caporael, and William C. Wimsatt.

Series:

Vienna series in theoretical biology

ISBN:

0262019558 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262019552 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827724455

LCCN:

2013004744

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)