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Dec 27, 20226 min read

Summary of Heyes' article: Enquire Within: Cultural Evolution and Cognitive Science

1 Intro The purpose of this article is to explain how cultural evolution and cognitive science can inform each other. The specific way...

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Dec 21, 20228 min read

Summary of Boyd and Richerson's Chapter 5, Biased Transmission and the Sociobiology Debate

Chapter 5 Biased Transmission and the Sociobiology Debate The aim of this book is to develop a theory of cultural evolution and how it...

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Nov 10, 20227 min read

Introductory Summary of Culture and evolutionary Process.

Overview Boyd and Richerson (1985) start with the observation that evolution has only recently made contributions to the social sciences....

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Sep 3, 202214 min read

Summary of The Pleistocene Social Contract

Book By Kim Sterelny Book Summary by Haggeo I have a book review forthcoming in the quarterly review of biology. However, that is only...

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Dec 29, 202116 min read

Summary of The Evolved Apprentice

Book by Kim Sterelny summary by Haggeo Preface Sterenly distinguishes, following Peter Godfrey-Smith, philosophy of science vs philosophy...

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Jun 30, 20213 min read

Cognitive Gadgets Summary Ch 1

Cognitive Gadgets Below is my summary of chapter 1 of Cecilia Heyes' book, Cognitive Gadgets. Stay tuned for my summary of other...

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