What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as …
This book is about movement. It is about the necessity of incorporating movement in our epistemological and metaphysical investigations of the animate world from the very …
JG Ruggie - International organization, 1993 - cambridge.org
The concept of territoriality has been studied surprisingly little by students of international politics. Yet, territoriality most distinctively defines modernity in international politics, and …
S Pinker, P Bloom - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1990 - cambridge.org
Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …
Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new …
Abstract [This book] shows how simple models based on mutual interactions between children and their environments explain not only smooth evolutions but also sudden jumps …
'Intelligence'has long been considered to be a feature unique to human beings, giving us the capacity to imagine, to think, to deceive, to make complex connections between cause and …
This study provides a stimulating critique of contemporary evolutionary thought, analyzing the Modern Synthesis first developed by Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, and George …
Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more …