Index

Abraham, Max, 122, 124–28, 139, 172

Acheulean, 27, 312, 314, 346, 369, 371, 389

Africa, xv, xix, 380, 397, 415

Akkadian, 401–2, 408

Anderson, Philip, 162

anthropology, 3, 32, 65, 90, 326, 329, 369, 451, 474–75

archaeology, 3–5, 311–15, 322, 324, 347, 349–50, 396, 471, 473–75, 480

Asia, 397; southwestern, 397, 399; Western, 415

Athens, 398

Bayesianism, 202, 207, 216–17, 220

bioengineering, 64, 66, 67, 68, 85

biotechnology, 48

black box, xxv, 15, 17, 34, 202, 208, 212–13, 224, 226–27, 231

Bohr, Niels, 97, 100–101, 107, 110, 129, 134–38, 141, 162, 170–72

Born, Max, 103, 107–8, 110, 137, 139–42, 144–46, 169, 182n48

bullae, xxviii, 399–403, 405, 408–12, 416n15, 416n21

Cairns-Smith, Graham, 111–12

canalization (developmental), 491

Carnap, Rudolph, 96, 175–76n3

Casimir, Hendrik, 97

catalysis (scaffolding), 432, 435–36

cells: endothelial, 70, 75–76, 78, 80–82; stem, 53, 80–82, 88

Chomsky, Noam, xxvii, 5, 365, 374, 376

chunking, 9, 34, 219

coherence (cultural), xxvi, 261, 263–65, 299n3

complexity science, 470, 477–79, 482–86, 489, 491, 492n2

consonance (cultural), 262

Cope, Edward Drinker, 115

core configurations, 20–22, 57–58

cultural traits. See traits (cultural)

cuneiform, xxviii, 397–99, 401–3, 405–9, 412, 413n3, 414n6, 416n21, 416n32

Darrigol, Olivier, 98

Davy, Humphry, 115

Dawkins, Richard, 164, 169

Deaux, Kay, 451

developing biological individuals (DBIs), 18–19, 24, 28, 31

development, 9, 14–16, 18–19

dimorphic, 409, 457

Dirac, Paul, 98, 142–44, 148, 151, 154–55, 158

displacement, xxix, 28, 379, 383, 426–27, 429, 431, 436, 439–40, 442n2

distributed cognition, 20, 21–22, 65–66

dual-inheritance approach, ix, 4

ecosystem, 2–3, 6, 14, 24, 65–66, 74, 88, 402, 447, 470–71, 476, 479, 484

Eddington, Arthur, 109–10

educational program, 84–85, 89, 91

Einstein, Albert, 105–8, 110, 120–24, 128–34, 136–37, 139–40, 172–74, 176n4, 177n19, 179nn34–35, 180n36, 181nn37–38, 181n41, 181n43

Entwurf theory, 129–34

ethnography, 28, 72–73

evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), 2, 3, 7, 15, 168–69, 174, 183n59, 491

explanatory agenda. See problem agenda

Extended Synthesis. See Modern Synthesis

fossil, xxv, 117–18, 201, 206, 311, 313, 317

game theory, 448

Geertz, Clifford, 264, 267, 299n6

gene–culture coevolution (GCC), 3, 18–19, 262, 265, 270

generative entrenchment, xxv, xxviii, 1, 10, 16, 25, 26, 67, 68, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 333, 350, 367, 383, 428, 490, 491

genetics: classical, 9, 15; developmental, 2, 15, 29, 472; evolutionary, 2; molecular, 15, 428; population, xii–xv, xviii–xx, 1, 7, 29, 34n14, 164, 168–69, 174, 175n1, 183n59, 312, 349, 463, 475, 480

genomics, 48, 213, 472

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 115

Gould, Stephen Jay, 95, 161–62, 164–71, 183n55, 204, 344–45

Heisenberg, Werner, 135, 138–42, 144–45, 147, 159, 170, 172–73, 174, 181n43, 182n48

Herschel, John, 115–16

Hertz, Heinrich, 106

Hilbert, David, 103–8, 112, 114, 124, 132, 144, 148, 156, 158–59, 180n36

Hilbert space, 106, 141, 151, 153–60, 172–73

hominines, 365–66, 369, 373–74, 376, 379, 384, 386–87

Hooke, Robert, 108–9

how-possibly explanation, 269, 291

hybrid, xxvii, 22, 66–67, 72, 74, 84–85, 88, 89, 374

innovation: biological, 250; cultural, 254; technological, 248–49, 251, 398, 409, 414

Iran, 399–400, 402, 404

Iraq, 398, 401–2, 404, 415n10

Israel, 102, 445

Jammer, Max, 98

Jordan, Pascual, 139–40, 140–61, 169, 173, 182n48, 182n50

Judaism, 445–46, 463n1

Kuhn, Thomas, 90n7, 95–98, 132, 140, 164–65, 169, 172, 175n2, 176n3, 176nn7–8, 177n11, 183n59, 243, 299n3

Kulturtechnik, 395, 410

laboratory, xxiv, 43, 64, 66–67, 74–75, 87, 90, 240, 244, 254, 370, 462, 474

Lakatos, Imre, 97, 101–2, 243

language, xv, xx–xxi, xxvii–xxviii, xxix, 3, 5, 8, 18, 21, 25–26, 32n2, 33n12, 35n23, 200, 214, 223–24, 333, 347–48, 365–90, 395–418, 425, 431–32, 436

Lewontin, Richard, 96, 166–71, 176n5, 365

linguistics, 3, 4, 375, 396

logography, 396

Lorenz, Ludvig, 121–23, 135, 138

Lorenz transformation, 120–23

Maxwell, James Clerk, 108, 116, 162, 165, 177n22

McPherson, Miller, 454–55

meme, vii, xvii, xviii, xxxi, 17, 35n22, 164, 202, 225, 240, 318, 319, 321, 388, 407, 462

Mesoamerica, xxvii, 396–97, 409, 413, 417n44

Mesopotamia, xxvii, 396, 398, 405–6, 408–9, 411–12, 414n4, 414n6, 417n36, 417n44

Millikan, Robert, 105–6, 181n37

Minkowski, Hermann, 112, 119–25, 128, 131, 172, 174

mnemonic, 397, 404, 408

model organism, xxiii, 5, 29, 43, 46–49, 50, 54, 56, 223, 237–46, 256–57, 346

model system, xxv, 67–68, 75–78, 80–84, 88, 237–41, 244–46, 254–57

Modern Synthesis, 164–65, 168, 174, 472, 475, 480–82

mutation, 203, 343, 346

near-decomposability, 487, 489

Neurath, Otto, 102–3, 177nn13–14

niche construction, ix, 21–22, 28, 271, 373, 471

Norton, John, 111–12, 133–34, 182n52

Nuzi, 401–3, 416n21

ontogenetic, 365, 369, 373–74

ontology consortia, 43, 45–47, 49–52, 54–55, 57–58

organization: levels of, 17, 24, 472, 476, 480, 487, 489–90; social, vii, xiv, 2, 23, 56, 60n1, 366, 370, 372, 381–82, 458, 461

phenotype, 206, 315, 471

phylogenetic, 3, 26, 200, 200–202, 204–7, 209, 216, 220–21, 223, 228, 315, 349, 365–69, 372–74, 377, 380, 384, 389

Planck, Max, 106, 116, 127–28, 180–81n37, 183n58

Popper, Karl, 91n13, 97

population structure, xv, xviii, xix, 1, 7, 13–15, 16, 18–19, 31, 33n8, 33n10

problem agenda, xi–xiv, xvi–xviii, xxx–xxxi, 29

psychology: cognitive, xxiv, 4, 329; cultural, x; developmental, 332, 447; evolutionary, 32n5; social, 35n21

religion, xxi, xxix, 6, 272, 274, 276–77, 279n5, 286, 288–89, 291, 295, 297, 301n17, 302n30, 366, 371, 373

reverse engineering, xxvii, 203, 340–42, 344–45

Rome, 398

Rowling, J. K., 450

scaffolding, xiv, xvii, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxviii, xxix, 3, 6, 8, 15–19, 22–25, 27–28, 33n12, 34n13, 42, 44, 56, 58–59, 65–67, 74–89, 95–183, 203–4, 207, 223–25, 229n9, 231n19, 263, 294, 312, 314, 321, 332–47, 373, 378, 383–87, 398, 404, 412, 415n11, 425–42, 460–61, 473, 484

Schrödinger, Erwin, 142–43, 176n4, 183n57

selection: group, 19, 276–78, 295–96, 301; kin, 312; natural, 161, 165–68, 247, 313

self-organization, 448, 478–79, 484

sequential skill acquisition, xx, 7–10, 12–15, 18–19, 28, 31, 34nn16–17, 201–3, 211, 219, 221, 229n9, 230n15, 231n18, 231n20, 318, 335

Shubin, Neil, 167–68, 183n56

Simon, Herbert, 34, 90n6, 91n13, 487–88

simulation model, 66–69, 71, 77, 79–80, 83–84, 88, 278

social movement theory, 43, 50–55

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 96, 107, 124–25, 129, 131–32, 170–71, 180n36

spandrel, 166–71

steering committees, xxiii, 43, 47–51, 54–58

success bias, 266, 271, 277–83, 291–93, 298

Susa, 399–400, 402–5, 416n25, 417n36

syntax, xxiii, xxvii, 367, 369, 371, 374–75, 380, 384, 386, 401, 406

Syria, 399, 402–4

technology: bio-, 48; communication, 366–67, 377, 380, 473; computing, 438–39; information, 11–12, 49, 426, 437–40; lithic, xxi, 9, 27, 34, 200, 320, 323–24, 330, 340, 344–45, 348; patented, 237–39, 241, 246–47, 254–57; writing, 396, 405–6, 408, 412, 417n36

tissue engineering, 66, 74–75, 82

traits (cultural), xiv, xx, 34, 201–5, 222, 230, 237, 247–48, 236, 445, 462

transmissible or replicable elements (TREs), 17–18, 24, 28, 31

transmission: horizontal, 2, 200, 203–5, 207, 221, 224, 366; vertical, 203, 207

transmission-accelerating mechanisms (TRAMs), 202, 223–25

transmission-isolating mechanisms (TRIMs), 202–4, 223–25

Turkey, 399, 402

Tushan, 402

universal grammar, 365, 374

Uruk, xxviii, 398–400, 402–7, 409–10, 414n6, 414n8, 415n9, 416n15, 416n25, 417n36

value: economic, 246, 473; epistemic, 70, 72; societal, 473

Vonnegut, Kurt, 545

von Neumann, John, 105, 112, 141–44, 150–60, 172–73

Weinberg, Steven, 141

wicked problems, 476–77, 486, 489

wicked systems, xxx, 471, 476–79, 482, 484, 486–87, 489–92

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 102, 114, 174