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 …

Niche construction theory (NCT) explicitly recognizes environmental modification by
organisms (“niche construction”) and their legacy over time (“ecological inheritance”) to be …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

Archaeological accounts of cultural change reveal a fundamental conflict: Some suggest that
change is gradual, accelerating over time, whereas others indicate that it is punctuated, with …

Attempts to integrate human culture, history, or symbolic imagination into a comprehensive
theory of evolution have, up to now, foundered on a bifurcation between mind and nature …

The initial domestication of plants and animals and the subsequent emergence of
agricultural economies in different world regions represent a major evolutionary transition in …

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) has undergone dramatic transformations
since its emergence as a distinct discipline. This paper aims to highlight the scope, power …

Humans are shaped by evolution through natural selection, as are all species. While
evolution is central to all biological processes, the key stage for competition and selection is …

Cognitive science is a study of human universals. This assumption, which we will refer to as
the Newtonian principle (NP), explicitly or implicitly pervades the theory, methods, and prose …

This paper introduces a conceptual framework for the evolution of complex systems based
on the integration of regulatory network and niche construction theories. It is designed to …