Technological selection: A missing link

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (4):222-223 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Vaesen's description of uniquely human tool-related cognitive abilities rings true but would be enhanced by an account of how those abilities would have evolved. I suggest that a process of technological selection operated on the cognitive architecture of ancestral hominids because they, unlike other tool-using species, depended on tools for their survival

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x11001889

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,705

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

The missing link's missing link: Syllabic vocalizations at 3 months of age.Kathleen Bloom - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4):514-515.
The self and other : a missing link in comparative social cognition.Joseph Call - 2005 - In Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness.Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.) - 2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The missing link in epistemology.C. A. Strong - 1932 - Journal of Philosophy 29 (25):673-687.
The Missing Link in Peace Plans.J. H. Muirhead - 1936 - Philosophy 11 (44):475 - 477.
Are cosmological theories compatible with all possible evidence: A missing methodological link.Nick Bostrom - unknown
The missing link in human understanding.Oskar Emil - 1929 - Journal of Philosophy 26 (4):99-106.
Circular queue paradoxes – the missing link.Laurence Goldstein - 1999 - Analysis 59 (4):284–290.
Aquinas and the Missing Link in the Philosophy of History.Moorhouse F. X. Millar - 1934 - Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 8 (4):642-655.
The missing link between virtue theory and business ethics.John Morse - 1999 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 16 (1):47–58.
Metacognition and the evolution of language.Herbert S. Terrace - 2005 - In Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
The role of Bayesian philosophy within Bayesian model selection.Jan Sprenger - 2013 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3 (1):101-114.
Do non-human primates have episodic memory.Bennett L. Schwartz - 2005 - In Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness. Oxford University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-10-27

Downloads
20 (#785,698)

6 months
2 (#1,241,941)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.Charles Darwin - 1898 - New York: Plume. Edited by Carl Zimmer.

Add more references