1. Introduction: Current Topics and Debates in Human Symbolic Evolution, Nathalie Gontier, Andy Lock, Chris Sinha PART 1: Studying symbolism: Epistemological considerations 2. The evolution of the biological sciences, Nathalie Gontier 3. The evolution of the symbolic sciences, Nathalie Gontier 4. A timeline for the acquisition of symbolic cognition in the human lineageA timeline for the acquisition of symbolic cognition in the human lineage, Ian Tattersall 5. Behavioral modernity, evolutionary synergies, and the symbolic species, Ana Majkic 6. On the aboutness of language and the evolution of the construction-ready brain, Michael A. Arbib 7.
The evolution of language and speech: What we know from genetics, Antonio Benítez-Burraco and Dan Dediu PART 2: Pathways to symbolization: Psychological considerations 8. The evolution of the human life course: The role of culturally driven plasticity, Francesco Suman 9. Artefacts, symbols, and the socio-cultural dynamics of niche construction, Chris Sinha 10. Evolution of intentional teaching, Peter Gärdenfors and Anders Högberg 11. Intersubjectivity is activity plus accountability, Nick J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell 12. The symbolic revolution: A sexual conflict model, Camilla Power, Ian Watts, and Chris Knight 13. Primate parents: Theories, bias, and change in the study of the evolution of parenting, Maria Botero PART 3: Symbolic lifeways: Anthropological considerations 14.
Art, sign, and representation, Elisabeth V. Culley and Iain Davidson 15. Symbols and material signs in the debate on human origins, Antonis Iliopoulos and Lambros Malafouris 16. Culturing the Paleolithic body: Archaeological signatures of adornment and body modification, April Nowell and Amanda Cooke 17. The evolution of music: The development of sonic representation and meaning, Rupert Till 18. Symbolism and archeoastronomy in prehistory, Fabio Silva, Fernando Pimenta, and Luís Tirapicos 19. Exploring the evolutionary pathways from number sense to numeracy, Roslyn M. Frank PART 4: Grounding symbolism: Ethological considerations 20.
How viruses made us human, Guenther Witzany 21. Animal signals and symbolism, Ulrike Griebel and D. Kimbrough Oller 22. Emotion expression, empathic reception, and prosocial behavior: Are they linked in evolution?, Augusta Gaspar 23. Primate cognition in captivity, David A. Leavens and Kim A. Bard 24. Kanzi or can''t he? Animal language projects, Heidi Lyn 25.
Artifact, praxis, tool, and symbol, Lana M. Ruck and Natalie T. Uomini PART 5: From protolanguage to language: Linguistic considerations 26. The narrative origins of language, Francesco Ferretti 27. Pantomimic conceptions of language origins, Slawomir Wacewicz and Przemys?aw ?ywiczy?ski 28. On the structure of early language: Analytic vs holistic language processing and grammaticalization, Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine 29. Gesture is an intrinsic part of modern-day human communication and may always have been so, Susan Goldin-Meadow 30. Ontogenetic origins of infant pointing, Ulf Liszkowski and Johanna Rüther 31.
Reconstructing the origins of language families and variation, Gerd Carling, Chundra Cathcart, and Erich Round PART 6: Expanding symbolism: Socio-technological considerations 32. The origins of money and its role in modernity, Todd Oakley 33. Force fields of the modern: the symbolic contestation of power, Prem Poddar 34. The evolution of writing systems: An introduction, Alex de Voogt 35. Archewriting: The Symbolic Evolution of Script and Narrative, Rukmini Bhaya Nair 36. Cybercultures, Sverker Johansson and Ylva Lindberg 37. Transcending the rational symbol system: How information and communication technology integrates science, art, philosophy, and spirituality into a global brain, Francis Heylighen 38. 1.
Technoscience, transhumanism, and telos, Natasha Vita-More 39. Metaphor, myth, and symbol in the grain of time, Chris Sinha.