Human beings are intellectually adventurous. We divide the world into kinds of things, such
as living and nonliving, but we are also driven to go beyond categorization. We seek to …

Research suggests that for adults,“folkpsychology” and “folkbiology” represent distinct
conceptual domains for reasoning about living things. However, it is not clear whether these …

In 1985, Susan Carey's pathbreaking book Conceptual Change in Childhood reminded
scholars that biology was a neglected topic in the field of cognitive development. Although …

Carey's (1985) book on conceptual change and the accompanying argument that children's
biology initially is organized in terms of naı̈ve psychology has sparked a great detail of …

Measuring the Evolution and Devolution of Folkbiological Knowledge Although science
continues to deliver new insights into the basis for life, it is hard to escape the impression …

This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the
study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination of a conceptual module for …

How do people understand the world of plants and animals and in what specific ways do
these understandings vary with culture, experience, or expertise? These are the basic …

As cognitive scientists we are interested in folkbiology as a domain that allows us to explore
the developing mind in phylogenetic and ontogenetic terms. Everyone has some exposure …

Human cognition is characterized by enormous variability and structured by universal
psychological constraints. The focus of this article is on the development of knowledge …

In Ethnobiological Classification Brent Berlin expands his pioneering work on the structure
of folk biological classification with new theoretical insights and examples of how minds and …