An Anti-Individualist Approach to the Phylogeny of Human Cognition

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Notes

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2. Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds., The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

3. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009). Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (New York: Basic Books, 2009).

4. Dan Sperber, et al., “Epistemic Vigilance,” Mind and Language 25.4 (2010): 359–93.

5. John Mikhail, “Universal Moral Grammar: Theory, Evidence, and the Future,” Trends in Cognitive Science 11.4 (2007): 143–52.

6. Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, “The Evolution of Subjective Commitment to Groups: A Tribal Instinct Hypothesis,” in Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment, ed. Randolph M. Nesse (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), 186–220.

7. Wofgang Enard, et al., “Molecular Evolution of FOXP2, a Gene Involved in Speech and Language,” Nature 418 (2002): 869–72.

8. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1993).