Neanderthals are often characterised as being incapable of symbolic thought, language, and action. Sociobiologists have even …

Humankind has a long evolutionary history. When we are trying to understand human complex cognition, it is as well … important to look back to entire evolution. I will present the thesis that our biological predispositions and culture, together … factors, and they enabled humans to develop some aspects of complex cognition, such as mathematics. In the beginning of the …

reveals the important role that the constant-sum model has played – and still plays – in human cognition. …

Using insights from 'embodied cognition' and a resulting 'cognitive theory of the firm', I aim to contribute to the … 'focusing device'.Here, cognition has a wide meaning, including perception, interpretation, sense making, and value judgements … following sources of variation: replication in communication, novel combinations of existing knowledge, and a path of discovery …