The evolved apprentice: how evolution made humans unique Kim Sterelny

The Challenge of Novelty 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 The Social Intelligence Hypothesis 6
1.3 Cooperative Foraging 10
1.4 Cooperative Foraging and Knowledge Accumulation 12
1.5 Life in a Changing World 16
Accumulating Cognitive Capital 23
2.1 A Lineage Explanation of Social Learning 23
2.2 Feedback Loops 29
2.3 The Apprentice Learning Model 34
Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments 45
3.1 Behavioral Modernity 45
3.2 The Symbolic Species 48
3.3 Public Symbols and Social Worlds 52
3.4 Preserving and Expanding Information 55
3.5 Niche Construction and Neanderthal Extinction 62
The Human Cooperation Syndrome 73
4.1 Triggering Cooperation 73
4.2 A Cooperation Complex 75
4.3 The Grandmother Hypothesis 80
4.4 Foragers: Ancient and Modern 89
4.5 Hunting: Provisioning or Signaling? 94
Costs and Commitments 101
5.1 Free Riders 101
5.2 Control and Commitment 103
5.3 Commitment Mechanisms 106
5.4 Signals, Investments, and interventions 109
5.5 Hunting and Commitment 113
5.6 Commitment through Investment 118
5.7 Primitive Trust 122
Signals, Cooperation, and Learning 125
6.1 Sperber's Dilemma 125
6.2 Two Faces of Cultural Learning 130
6.3 Honesty Mechanisms 132
.6.4 The Folk as Educators 143
From Skills to Norms 151
7.1 Norms and Communities 151
7.2 Moral Nativism 153
7.3 Self-Control, Vigilance, and Persuasion 155
7.4 Reactive and Reflective Moral Response 160
7.5 Moral Apprentices 163
7.6 The Biological Preparation of Moral Development 165
7.7 The Expansion of Cultural Learning 169
Cooperation and Conflict 173
8.1 Group Selection 173
8.2 Strong Reciprocity and Human Cooperation 178
8.3 Children of Strife? 186
8.4 The Holocene: A World Queerer Than We Realized? 190