THE HUMAN REVOLUTION - EVENING CLASS
Allen, Nick: Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems
Bakhtin, Mikhail: Passages from Rabelais and his World
Arcadi, Adam Clark: Vocal Responsiveness in Male Wild Chimpanzees: implications for the evolution of language
Balter, Michael: Early Start for Human Art? Ochre May Revise Timeline
Bamberger, Joan: The Myth of Matriarchy: why men rule in primitive society
Barkham, Patrick: The Power of Speech (an interview of Daniel Everett)
Barrett, Louise & S Peter Henzi: Constraints on Relationship Formation among Female Primates
Beckerman, Stephen & Valentine, Paul: The Concept of Partible Paternity among Native South Americans
Biesele, Megan: Women Like Meat: the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari JU/'hoan
Bloch, Maurice: Placing the Dead: tombs, ancestral villages, and kinship organisation in Madagascar
Bloch, Maurice & Jonathan Parry: Death and the Regeneration of Life
Boomgaard, Peter: Perspectives on de Waal’s Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Bradden, Edmund: Chris Knight's Theory of Human Origins: an abridged account
Alcorta, Candace S, & Richard Sosis: Ritual, Emotion and Sacred Symbols: the evolution of religion as an adaptive complex
Class TEXTS
Aiello, Leslie C & Robin I M Dunbar: Neocortex size, Group Size and the Evolution of Language
Aiello, Leslie C & Peter Wheeler: The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: the brain and the digestive system in human and primate evolution
Brown, P et al: A New Small-Bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia
Byrne, Richard: The Evolution of Primate Cognition
Byrne, Richard & Corp, Nadia: Neocortex Size Predicts Deception Rate in Primates
Chomsky, Noam: Language and Nature
Corballis, Michael: From Mouth to Hand: gesture, speech and the evolution of right-handedness
Cowan, James: Foreword to Kun-Man-Gur the Rainbow Serpent
Dessalles, Jean-Louis: Altruism, Status and the Origin of Relevance
Dessalles,Jean-Louis: Language and Hominid Politics
Dunbar, Robin I M: Coevolution of neocortex size, Group Size and Language in Humans
Delson, Eric & Katerina Harvati: Return of the Last Neanderthal
Durkheim, Emile: The Origins of These Beliefs: the genesis of the notion of the totemic principle or Mana
Falk, Dean et al: The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis
Finlayson, Clive et al: Late survival of Neanderthals at the Southernmost Extreme of Europea
Gallup, Gordon G Jr: Chimpanzees: self-recognition
Giles, Jim: Aboriginal Remains Head for Home
Gintis, Herbert, Eric Alden Smith & Samuel Bowles: Costly Signaling and Cooperation
Gordon, Peter: Numerical Cognition without Words: evidence from Amazonia
Hage, Per & Jeff Marck: Matrilineality and the Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes
Hawkes, Kristen: The Grandmother Effect
Hauser, Marc D, Noam Chomsky & W Tecumseh Fitch: The Faculty of Language: What is it, who has it and how did it evolve?
Henrich, Joseph & Francisco J Gil-White: The Evolution of Prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission
Henshilwood, Christopher S & Curtis W Marean: The Origin of Modern Human Behaviour
Henshilwood, Christopher et al: Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
Hill, Russell A & Robert A Barton: Red Enhances Human Performance in Contests
Hohmann, Gottfried & Barbara Fruth: Culture in Bonobos? Between-species and within-species variation in behavior
Hovers, Erella et al: An Early Case of Color Symbolism: ochre use by Modern Humans in Quafzeh cave
Hurford, James: Languages, and the Human Language Faculty
Hurford, James: Language Beyond our Grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for language evolution
Kaplan, Hillard & Jane Lancaster: An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment
Kaplan, Hillard & Arthur J Robson: The Emergence of Humans: the coevolution of intelligence and longevity with intergenerational transfers
Kaplan, Hillard, Kim Hill, Jane Lancaster & A Magdalena Hurtado: A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: diet, intelligence & longevity
Katz, R: The Death that Kills Us All
Knight, Chris: The Syntax of Sex Strike
Knight, Chris: Ritual and the Origins of Language
Knight, Chris: Introduction: The Evolution of Cooperative Communication
Knight, Chris: Sex and Language as Pretend Play
Knight, Chris: Play as Precursor of Phonology and Syntax
Knight, Chris: Decoding Chomsky
Knight, Chris: The Time-resistant Syntax of Human Ritual and Myth
Knight, Chris & Camilla Power: Grandmothers, Politics, and Getting Back to Science
Knight, Chris & Camilla Power: The Origins of Anthropomorphic Thinking
Knight, Chris, Michael Studdert-Kennedy & James R Hurford: Language: a Darwinian Adaptation?
other publications by Chris Knight
Kohn, Marek: Trust. In As We Know It: coming to terms with an evolved mind, ch3, pp184-223. Granta Press, London. 1999
Kohn, Marek & Steven Mithen: Handaxes: products of sexual selection?
Lathe, Richard: Fast Tidal Cycling and the Origin of Life
Lathe, Richard: Early Tides: response to Varga et al
Lattas, Andrew: Trickery and Sacrifice: Tambarans and the appropriation of female reproductive powers in male initiation ceremonies in West New Britain
Lattas, Andrew: The Utopian Promise of Government
Lattas, Andrew: Living with the Past, Living with Oneself: Mimesis, Sexuality and Death in Bush Kaliai Cargo Cults
Levinson, S C: Language and Mind: let's get the issues straight!
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: Bororo Song - the birdnester's aria
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: At the Scene of the Crime: the hunter Monmanéki and his wives
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: The Savage Mind. Ch4: Totem and Caste
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: The Wives of the Sun and Moon
Lewis, Jerome: Forest Hunter-Gatherers and their World: a study of Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies of Congo-Brazzaville and their Secular and Religious Activities and Representations
Locke, John L & Barry Bogin: Language and Life History: a new perspective on the development and evolution of Human language
Maccoby, Hyam: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance
Marlowe, Frank W: Is Human Ovulation Concealed? Evidence from conception beliefs in a hunter-gatherer society
McCauley, Robert N & E Thomas Lawson: Bringing Ritual to Mind: psychological foundations of cultural forms. Ch3: Two Hypotheses Concerning Religious Ritual and Emotional Stimulation
McClintock, Martha K: Menstrual Synchrony & Suppression
Morgan, Elaine: Human Evolution: the water theory
Nietszche, Friedrich: On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Noble, Jason: Cooperation, Competition and the Evolution of Pre-Linguistic Communication
Novellino, Dario: Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies. Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island (the Philippines)
Novellino, Dario: The relevance of Myths and Worldviews in Pälawan Classification, Perceptions, and Management of Honey Bees
O'Connell, J F, K Hawkes & N G Blurton-Jones: Grandmothering and the Evolution of Homo Erectus
Orbell, John et al: "Machiavellian" Intelligence as a Basis for the Evolution of Cooperative Dispositions
Ortner, Sherry B: Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?
Pawlowski, Boguslaw: Loss of Oestrus and Concealed Ovulation in Human Evolution
Penton-Voak, LS et al: Menstrual Cycle Alters Face Preference
Pinker, Steven & Ray Jackendoff: The Faculty of Language: what's special about it?
other publications by Camilla Power
Power, Camilla & Ian Watts: The Woman with the Zebra's Penis: gender, mutability and performance
Power, Camilla & Ian Watts: First gender, Wrong Sex
Radcliffe-Brown, A R: The Mother's Brother in South Africa
Rappaport, Roy: The Obvious Aspects of Ritual
Rendell, Luke & Hal Whitehead: Culture in Whales and Dolphins
Richards, Michael P et al: Sharp Shift in Diet at Onset of Neolithic
Sahlins, Marshall D: The Origins of Society
Siskind, Janet: To Hunt in the Morning
Sperber, Dan & Lawrence Hirschfeld: Culture, Cognition and Evolution
Staal, Frits: The Meaninglessness of Ritual
Steels, Luc: Creating a Robot Culture: an interview with Luc Steels
Steklis, Horst D & Stevan R Harnad: From Hand to Mouth: some critical stages in the evolution of language
Stern, Kathleen & Martha K McClintock: Regulation of Ovulation by Human Pheromones
Stevens, Jeffrey R: The Selfish Nature of Generosity: harassment and food-sharing in primates
Stringer, Chris: Out of Ethiopia
Tomasello, Michael: Why Don't Apes Point?
Tomasello, Michael, Brian Hare, Hagen Lehmann & Josep Call: Reliance on Head versus Eyes in the Gaze Following of Great Apes and Human Infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis
Varga P, K R Rybicki & C Denis: Comment on the Paper "Fast Tidal Cycling and the Origin of Life" by Richard Lathe
Verhaegen, Marc & Stephen Munro: Australopiths Wading? Home diving?
Warner, W L: The Myth of the Wawilak Women
Watkins, Stuart: Learning to Love Sociobiology: The ideas of Chris Knight
White, Tim D et al: Pleistocene Homo Sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
Hart, Keith: A Human Economy for the Twenty-First Century
Dawkins, Richard: Immortal coils, chapter 3 in The Selfish Gene
Bamford, Brian (ed): Language, Mind and Society: An Alternative RAVEN.
Power, Camilla: Secret language use at female initiation. Bounding gossiping communities.
Wyman, Emily: Young Children’s Understanding of and Engagement in Social Conventions [high quality, PhD thesis, requires latest version of Adobe Reader]
Science Mag: Animal Communication Helps Reveal Roots of Language
Fernández-Duque, Eduardo et al: Moonstruck Primates: Owl monkeys (Aotus) need moonlight for nocturnal activity in their natural environment
Benn, C.R.: The moon and the origin of life
Dunn, Michael, Greenhill, S., Levinson, S. & Gray, R.: Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
Graeber, David: Debt, the first five thousand years
Gray, Peter: Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence
Coulson, S., Staurset, S. and Walker, N.: Ritualized Behavior in the Middle Stone Age, Evidence from Rhino Cave, Tsodillo Hills, Botswana
Packer, C., Swanson, A., Ikanda, D. and Kushnir, H.: Fear of Darkness, the Full Moon and the Nocturnal Ecology of African Lions
