Kim Sterelny
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Brusse C, Sterelny K
Behav Brain Sci
. 2019 May;
41:e100.
PMID: 31064480
We argue that Stanford's picture of the evolution of externalised norms is plausible mostly because of the idealisations implicit in his defence of it. Once we take into account plausible...
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Sterelny K
Top Cogn Sci
. 2019 Apr;
12(2):766-783.
PMID: 31025469
The papers in this issue have specific and focused targets that are essential for making incremental progress on the very difficult problem of identifying the coevolutionary interactions of cognition and...
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Sterelny K
Proc Biol Sci
. 2017 Dec;
284(1869).
PMID: 29237856
Like every other species, our species is the result of descent with modification under the influence of natural selection; a tip in an increasingly large and deep series of nested...
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Currie A, Sterelny K
Stud Hist Philos Sci
. 2017 Jun;
62:14-21.
PMID: 28583355
We argue that narratives are central to the success of historical reconstruction. Narrative explanation involves tracing causal trajectories across time. The construction of narrative, then, often involves postulating relatively speculative...
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Sterelny K
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2016 Mar;
371(1690).
PMID: 26926286
This paper suggests (i) that while work on animal innovation has made good progress in understanding some of the proximate mechanisms and selective regimes through which innovation emerges, it has...
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Tebbich S, Griffin A, Peschl M, Sterelny K
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2016 Mar;
371(1690).
PMID: 26926285
Animal innovations range from the discovery of novel food types to the invention of completely novel behaviours. Innovations can give access to new opportunities, and thus enable innovating agents to...
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Laland K, Uller T, Feldman M, Sterelny K, Muller G, Moczek A, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2015 Aug;
282(1813):20151019.
PMID: 26246559
Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the Modern Synthesis...
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Laland K, Uller T, Feldman M, Sterelny K, Muller G, Moczek A, et al.
Nature
. 2014 Oct;
514(7521):161-4.
PMID: 25297418
No abstract available.
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Sterelny K
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2012 Jun;
367(1599):2141-51.
PMID: 22734057
This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop an incremental model of...
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Laland K, Sterelny K, Odling-Smee J, Hoppitt W, Uller T
Science
. 2011 Dec;
334(6062):1512-6.
PMID: 22174243
Fifty years ago, Ernst Mayr published a hugely influential paper on the nature of causation in biology, in which he distinguished between proximate and ultimate causes. Mayr equated proximate causation...