Evolution and Psychology: Links

Evolution of the Brain

• Brain Size and Expertise: John Skoyles (Psycholoquy, 1999)
• Home Page of W. H. Calvin 
• Brain evolution: General Constraints or Special Adaptations? B.L. Finlay and R.B. Darlington. (1995). No longer available but a summary is available here.
• Brain evolution and neurolinguistic Preconditions: Wilkins, Wendy K. & Wakefield, Jennie (1994). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
• Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size, and language: Dunbar, R.I.M. (1992). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
• Mind as Evolution and Evolution as Such. Pallbo, Robert (n.d.) 
• A Summary of Societies of brains: A study of the neuroscience of love and hate. Freeman, Walter J. (1995) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 
• The evolution of primate intelligence: Rifkin, Scott (1995). The Harvard Brain, 2. 

Evolution and Consciousness:

• Precis of Origins of the modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition: Donald, Merlin. (1994). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

Evolution of Signification and Language:

• Mirror neurons and the MotorTheory of Speech: John Skoyles (Noetica)
• Grasping Meaning: Mirror Neurons: From Science Daily
• Early signifiers: Zimmer, Carl. (1995). Discover magazine (05:01:95). 
• Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size, and language: Dunbar, R.I.M. (1992). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
• Brain evolution and neurolinguistic Preconditions: Wilkins, Wendy K. & Wakefield, Jennie (1994). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
• The symbol grounding problem: Harnad, Steven (1990). Physica D 42: 335-34. 
• Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. 
• Innateness, Autonomy, Universality? Neurobiological approaches to Language. Mueller, Ralph-Axel (1995). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 
• A new factor in evolution. Baldwin, James Mark, American Naturalist, 30, 441-451, 536-553. A classic paper on Organic Selection or the "Baldwin Effect". Ape Language 
• Transcript of Nova's "Can Chips Talk?
• Innateness, autonomy, universality? Neurobiological approaches to language. R-A. Mueller

Sociality and Evolution

• The Sociobiology of Sociopathy: An integrated evolutionary model. Mealey, Linda (1994). Behavioral and Brain Science 
• Bonobo sex and society The behavior of a close relative challenges assumptions about male supremacy in human evolution. de Waal, Frans B. D. (1995). Scientific American, 82-88. 

Group Selection:

• Volcanic Winter and Human Diversity: Science Daily
• Re-introducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences : Wilson, David Sloane & Sober, Elliot. 1994, Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

• Simulation of Human Dispersal
• Is out of Africa going out the door? (Scientific American, August, 1999)