Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition / edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt.
| Other author | Caporael, Linnda R. |
| Other author | Griesemer, James R. |
| Other author | Wimsatt, William C. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] |
| Description | xiv, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
| Subjects |
| Series | Vienna series in theoretical biology Vienna series in theoretical biology. ^A691420 |
| Contents | Reproduction and the scaffolded development of hybrids / James R. Griesemer -- Evolution, groups and scaffolded minds / Linnda R. Caporael -- Entrenchment and scaffolding : an architecture for a theory of cultural change / William C. Wimsatt -- Excitable media in media RES : how physics scaffolds metazoan development and evolution / Stuart A. Newman -- Communication and the evolution of cognition / James A. Evans -- Models as scaffolds for understanding / Jeffrey C. Schank, Christopher J. May, and Sanjay Joshi -- Stress in mind : a stress response hypothesis of cognitive evolution / Pamela Lyon -- Onwards and upwards with the extended mind : from individual to collective epistemic action / Georg Theiner -- Scaffolding on core cognition / Christophe Heintz -- Symbols as scaffolding / Colin Allen -- Technological scaffoldings for the evolution of culture and cognition / Sergio F. Martinez -- Some problems of analyzing cultural evolution / Elihu M. Gerson -- Scaffolding in economics, management, and the design of technologies / Johann Peter Murmann -- The reproduction of the social : a developmental system approach / Iddo Tavory, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka -- Biocultural co-construction of brain plasticity across the lifespan : from cognitive training to neurotransmitters / Shu-Chen Li -- Footholds and handholds : scaffolding cognition and career / Barbara Horberg Wimsatt -- Developing scaffolds : an epilogue -- James R. Griesemer, Linnda R. Caporael, and William C. Wimsatt. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013004744 |
| ISBN | 9780262019552 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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