Kim Sterelny
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Sterelny K
Behav Brain Sci
. 2025 Jan;
48():e17.
PMID: 39807718
Stibbard-Hawkes shows that cultures using material symbols might well not leave traces of that practice in the archaeological record. The paper thus poses an important challenge: When is absence of...
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Brusse C, Sterelny K
Behav Brain Sci
. 2025 Jan;
47:e176.
PMID: 39743808
The explanatory model proposed by Sijilmassi et al. appeals to fitness interdependence, and is highly plausible for small-scale societies. We argue that it is less so in the context of...
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Planer R, Sterelny K
Hum Nat
. 2024 Mar;
35(1):63-88.
PMID: 38507038
In many traditional, small-scale societies, death and other misfortunes are commonly explained as a result of others' malign occult agency. Here, we call this family of epistemic tendencies "the agential...
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Sterelny K
Behav Brain Sci
. 2023 Oct;
46:e252.
PMID: 37779272
Morin has identified an intriguing puzzle about human communication systems, and one element of the solution: Inscriptional sign systems pose more coordination problems, making sender/receiver coadaptation more difficult. But I...
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Sterelny K
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
3:e12.
PMID: 37588545
Children and subadults were obviously part of ancient human communities, and almost certainly, in important ways their activities were distinctive; they did not routinely act like scaled down adults. Yet...
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Sterelny K
Top Cogn Sci
. 2021 Jul;
13(4):728-749.
PMID: 34291883
The subsistence technology of forager communities has varied greatly over space and time. This paper (i) reviews briefly the main causal factors the literature identifies as responsible for this variation;...
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Sterelny K
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2020 Jun;
375(1803):20190497.
PMID: 32475328
There is a famous puzzle about the first 3 million years of archaeologically visible human technological history. The pace of change, of innovation and its uptake, is extraordinarily slow. In...
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Kipp M, Stueken E, Gehringer M, Sterelny K, Scott J, Forster P, et al.
Geobiology
. 2019 Nov;
18(2):152-166.
PMID: 31769156
Molecular nitrogen (N ) constitutes the majority of Earth's modern atmosphere, contributing ~0.79 bar of partial pressure (pN ). However, fluctuations in pN may have occurred on 10 -10 year...