| Psychology, culture, and evolution - 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.
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| Sean Madigan's CogSci Research Page - Personal cognitive Science Research Page. Includes bibliographies, links, papers and images.
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| The International Paleopsychology Project - A multi-disciplinary group of scientists dedicated to mapping out the evolution of complexity, sociality, perception, and mentation from the first 10-32 second of the Big Bang to the present.
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| Precis of origins of the modern mind - The central hypothesis in this paper is that there were three major cognitive transformations by which the modern human mind emerged over several million years: 1) mimetic skill and autocueing, 2) lexical invention, 3) externalization of memory.
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| Origin of language - 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.
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| Darwin's dangerous disciple - Interview with Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, from Skeptic magazine.
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| Cognitive science & literature & composition - Dedicated to exploring the impact of cognitive science upon the research and teaching of literature and composition.
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| Language, Neoteny, Heterochrony, and Human Evolution - Extensive collection of quotations on the evolution of language. Part of the Web Library of Excerpts: The Multidisciplinary Implications of Heterochronic Theory.
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| Gesture and language equivalence - 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.
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| Evolution in the First Person - 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!"
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| Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence - Extensive site containing sections on evolution, "memory expansion" and brain research news.
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| The Evolution of Ethics: Cybernetic Ethics - "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
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| Evolution and Philosophy - Kent Van Cleave presents his thesis that the pursuit of philosophy is the culmination of an evolutionary process.
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| Without Miracles: The Development and Functioning of Thought - Chapter from Prof. Gary Cziko's book "Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution."
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| Basic References on the Global Brain / Superorganism - Short annotated bibliography and link list related to theories of the global brain. "Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a "global brain"."
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| Motor theory of language - The motor theory proposes that language evolved as an exaptation from the existing complex brain system for motor control. (This is a Powerpoint presentation - link to a free viewer provided.)
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| The Pleistocene and the Origins of Human Culture: - Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that the specific mechanism by which humans mastered the Pleistocene is our capacity to evolve adaptations to the variation of Plio-Pleistocene environments via cultural traditions.
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| Cog Web - Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts. Features articles, discourse and bibliography.
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| Sperber, Dan - Researcher at Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France. Specialties include anthropology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of language . Site includes numerous full-text publications.
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| ICC - The International Culture & Cognition program is a multidisciplinary virtual institute devoted to exploring the interactions between mind and culture. Online papers and related resources organized by topic.
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| The Coevolution of Language and Theory of Mind - Online symposium organized by the french Institute for Cognitive Sciences and the European Science Foundation.
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