Posts on Human Evolution

Linkpost page for all human evolution posts.

• Reactions to papers on evolution~morality Extensive growing list of quick takes 25+.
• The Old Codger, child-minder nevermind the just-so stories, meetings made us human (substack.com post) not hunting, not gathering.
• a morally authoritative intangible The Evolution of Culture: An Interdisciplinary View. Edinburgh University Press, 1999 / edited by Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight, and Camilla Power. 9780748610754
• Only just-so on Rob Kurzban’s recent How the Psychologist Got Confused Explanation is a word, but a word is not an explanation (crosspost substack.com)
• REACTION to Ludovic Slimak's 2024 book The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature New York: Pegasus Books. [ISBN9781639366163] (crosspost substack.com & postscript)
• hmmm, yeah but nah : genetics, memetics and an extended West Cork reminiscence of bookish futility Steve Stewart-Williams, a reading of his The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. Cambridge University Press, 2018. #ISBN9781108425049 ( crosspost substack.com)
• Social learning 101 (substack crosspost)
• Joseph Patrick Henrich

• • ONE : Reading: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter & The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. 
  • TWO  the social institution of the individual
  • THREE-ish