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Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition

Caporael, Linnda R., (editor of compilation.). Griesemer, James R., (editor of compilation.). Wimsatt, William C., (editor of compilation.).

Summary: 'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume offer a more fully developed analysis of scaffolding that highlights the role of temporal and temporary resources in development broadly conceived, across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.

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ISBN: 9781461952367 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1461952360 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780262019552
ISBN: 0262019558
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (pages)
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Reproduction and the scaffolded development of hybrids / James R. Griesemer -- Evolution, groups and constructed minds / Linnda R. Caporael -- Entrenchment and scaffolding : an architecture for a theory of cultural change / William C. Wimsatt -- Excitable media in media RES : how physics scaffolds metazoan development and evolution / Stuart A. Newman -- Communication and the evolution of cognition / James A. Evans -- Models as scaffolds for understanding / Jeffrey C. Schank, Christopher J. May, and Sanjay Joshi -- Stress in mind : a stress response hypothesis of cognitive evolution / Pamela Lyon -- Onwards and upwards with the extended mind : from individual to collective epistemic action / Georg Theiner -- Scaffolding on core cognition / Christophe Heintz -- Symbols as scaffolding / Colin Allen -- Technological scaffoldings for the evolution of cognition and culture / Sergio F. Martinez -- Some problems of analyzing cultural evolution / Elihu M. Gerson -- Scaffolding in economics, management, and the design of technologies / Johann Peter Murmann -- The reproduction of the social : a developmental system approach / Iddo Tavory, Simona Ginsburg, and Eva Jablonka -- Biocultural co-construction of brain plasticity across the lifespan : from cognitive training to neurotransmitters / Shu-Chen Li -- Footholds and handholds : scaffolding cognition and career / Barbara Horberg Wimsatt -- Developing scaffolds : an epilogue -- Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.