Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.

Language and gesture are both motor activities controlled by the cerebral motor programs which generate all bodily activity. The equivalence of word structures and gestures is demonstrated by animations.

New ideas are the method of evolution of man. How this happens is a social phenomena rooted in evolutionary principles. "Contrary to appearances, the great mythological archetypal themes are about human evolution!"

Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.

Site has three sections: the first is concerned with the evolution of the human capacity to construct signs; the second deals with Cultural-Historical Psychology; the third concerns theories and arguments about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality.

Paper by Robin Allott. The emergence of language has been the result of a process of mosaic evolution, with diverse faculties found in animals (particularly in birds) coming together in the human and through a radical change in brain connections giving rise to language integrated with the motor system.

Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."

Home page of the French cognitive and social scientist, with biography, bibliography, and texts in English and French.

A new analysis of what is believed to the world's oldest musical instrument has produced a noteworthy result: Neandertals may have used the same seven-note scale that forms the basis of Western music.

"The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics." Online book