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Immanent Evolution
Questions of evolution are raised in both literary and biological theory. Biological transformism as a theory emerged at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Cultural Information
Cultural evolution is normally framed in informational terms. However, it is not clear whether this is an adequate way to model cultural evolutionary...
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Evolution and Communication
We propose an interpretation of processes of evolution that share an analogical structure with processes of communication in human beings regarding...
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Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory
Section 10.1 introduces generalized evolution (GE) theory. Here, the three core principles of the theory of evolution − reproduction, variation and...
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Cultural Evolution of Human Self-Awareness
History is almost always a cultural evolution that carries with it an evolution of human self-awareness. This evolution is perceptible in the...
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Language Evolution: Theories and Evidence
Evolution is a hard problem, and language evolution even more so. There is no easy algorithmic answer to the problem of how language evolved and...
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Determinism beyond time evolution
Physicists are increasingly beginning to take seriously the possibility of laws outside the traditional time-evolution paradigm; yet many popular...
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The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency
This chapter examines the deep connections between biological organization, agency, and evolution by natural selection. Using Griesemer’s account of...
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The role of social reinforcement in norm transmission and cultural evolution
Work on cultural evolution, especially that of Boyd, Richerson, and Henrich, has said little about the role of reinforcement in cultural learning....
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Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution
Numerous authors have examined the influence of other thinkers on Darwin’s formulation of some of the key concepts of the theory of evolution....
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The evolution of multispecies populations: a multilevel selection perspective
Two or more independent species lineages can fuse through an evolutionary transition to form a single lineage, such as in the case of eukaryotic...
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Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms
A shared narrative in the literature on the evolution of cooperation maintains that social learning evolves early to allow for the transmission of...
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A Bergsonian Perspective on Causality and Evolution
Bergsonian philosophy is not generally regarded as a true philosophy of biology. Bergson’s rejection of Darwinism, his silence on incipient genetics,...
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Evolution and Evolutionary Medicine in Disease
Evolution has a very strict definition and is very central to evolutionary biology itself when the canonized evolutionary understandings of...
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‘Pragmatics First’: Animal Communication and the Evolution of Language
Research on the evolution of language is often framed in terms of sharp discontinuities in syntax and semantics between animal communication systems...
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The evolution of complex multicellularity in animals
The transition to multicellularity is perhaps the best-studied of the “major evolutionary transitions”. It has occurred independently multiple times...
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Was evolution worth it?
The evolutionary process involved the suffering of quadrillions of sentient beings over millions of years. I argue that when we take this into...
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Evolution and Ecology of Organizations and Markets
I examine the prospect of locating the evolution of economic organizations and markets within Generalized Darwinism. I use the most mature account...
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The Theoretical Evolution of Utilitarianism
In response to the theoretical critique of utilitarianism, contemporary utilitarianism constantly replaces the unacceptable parts of classical...
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Jean Gayon on the “Modes” of Cultural Evolution
Cultural evolution is the theory of evolution by means of natural selectionSelection in the realm of culture. The development of cultural evolution...