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Autor:
Ronald J. Planer, Ross Pain
Publikováno v:
Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol 6 (2024)
Theorists of human evolution are interested in understanding major shifts in human behavioural capacities (e.g. the creation of a novel technological industry, such as the Acheulean). This task faces empirical challenges arising both from the complex
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Autor:
Ronald J. Planer
Publikováno v:
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 14 (2023)
Human language sentences are standardly understood as exhibiting considerable hierarchical structure: they can and typically do contain parts that in turn contain parts, etc. In other words, sentences are thought to generally exhibit significant nest
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Autor:
Ronald J. Planer
Publikováno v:
Philosophical Psychology. :1-24
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer
Publikováno v:
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology. 15
It has seemed to many theorists that our nature as a cooperatively breeding species is crucial to understanding how we became fully human. This article examines a particular strand within this thinking, according to which cooperative breeding drove t
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer, David Kalkman
Publikováno v:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 72:563-586
The arbitrariness of a signal has long been seen as a theoretically important but difficult to pin down notion. In this article, we suggest there are at least two different notions of arbitrariness...
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer, Lauren W. Reed
Publikováno v:
Biological Theory. 16:90-101
A number of language evolution researchers have argued that while language as we now know it is a predominately vocal affair, early language plausibly made extensive use of gesture. Relatedly, these same researchers often claim that while modern lang
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer, Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publikováno v:
Mind & Language. 36:750-770
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer
Publikováno v:
Biological Theory. 16:148-161
Kinship plays a foundational role in organizing human social behavior on both local and more global scales. Hence, any adequate account of the evolution of human sociality must include an account of the evolution of human kinship. This article aims t
Autor:
Ronald J. Planer
Publikováno v:
Topoi. 40:233-244
Humans’ capacity for so-called symbolic cognition is often invoked by evolutionary theorists, and in particular archaeologists, when attempting to explain human cognitive and behavioral uniqueness. But what is meant by “symbolic cognition” is o