Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-02-18DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00374-x
Elisa Bandini, Jonathan Scott Reeves, William Daniel Snyder, Claudio Tennie
{"title":"Clarifying Misconceptions of the Zone of Latent Solutions Hypothesis: A Response to Haidle and Schlaudt: Miriam Noël Haidle and Oliver Schlaudt: Where Does Cumulative Culture Begin? A Plea for a Sociologically Informed Perspective (Biological Theory 15: 161-174, 2020).","authors":"Elisa Bandini, Jonathan Scott Reeves, William Daniel Snyder, Claudio Tennie","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00374-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13752-021-00374-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The critical examination of current hypotheses is one of the key ways in which scientific fields develop and grow. Therefore, any critique, including Haidle and Schlaudt's article, \"Where Does Cumulative Culture Begin? A Plea for a Sociologically Informed Perspective,\" represents a welcome addition to the literature. However, critiques must also be evaluated. In their article, Haidle and Schlaudt (Biol Theory 15:161-174, 2020. 10.1007/s13752-020-00351-w; henceforth H&S) review some approaches to culture and cumulative culture in both human and nonhuman primates. H&S discuss the \"zone of latent solutions\" (ZLS) hypothesis as applied to nonhuman primates and stone-toolmaking premodern hominins. Here, we will evaluate whether H&S's critique addresses its target.</p>","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":"16 2","pages":"76-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8550035/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39845253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2020-10-08DOI: 10.1007/s13752-020-00362-7
L. Castro, M. A. Castro-Nogueira, M. Villarroel, M. Toro
{"title":"Assessor Teaching and the Evolution of Human Morality","authors":"L. Castro, M. A. Castro-Nogueira, M. Villarroel, M. Toro","doi":"10.1007/s13752-020-00362-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00362-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":"2014 1","pages":"5 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74248250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2020-10-06DOI: 10.1007/s13752-020-00360-9
Antoine C. Dussault
{"title":"Functionalism without Selectionism: Charles Elton's \"Functional\" Niche and the Concept of Ecological Function","authors":"Antoine C. Dussault","doi":"10.1007/s13752-020-00360-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00360-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":"9 1","pages":"52 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75187851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2020-08-20DOI: 10.1007/s13752-020-00358-3
Ferhat Taylan
{"title":"The Rise of the “Environment”: Lamarckian Environmentalism Between Life Sciences and Social Philosophy","authors":"Ferhat Taylan","doi":"10.1007/s13752-020-00358-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00358-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":"57 1","pages":"4 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73653759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1007/s13752-020-00357-4
Brady Fullerton
{"title":"Does Art Bring Us Together? An Empirical Approach to the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Ellen Dissanayake","authors":"Brady Fullerton","doi":"10.1007/s13752-020-00357-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00357-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":"73 13","pages":"188 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13752-020-00357-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72480272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}