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“A Paleolithic Reciprocation Crisis: Symbols, Signals, and Norms”

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K. Sterelny. 2014. Biological Theory, vol. 9, pp 65-77.
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Within paleoanthropology, the origin of behavioral modernity is a famous problem. Very large-brained hominins have lived for around half a million years, yet social lives resembling those known from the ethnographic record appeared perhaps 100,000 years ago. Why did it take 400,000 years for humans to start acting like humans? Continue reading →

“Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution”

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E. Danchin et al. 2011. Nature Reviews Genetics, vol. 12, pp. 475-486.
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Many biologists are calling for an ‘extended evolutionary synthesis’ that would ‘modernize the modern synthesis’ of evolution. Biological information is typically considered as being transmitted across generations by the DNA sequence alone, but accumulating evidence indicates that Continue reading →