Prof. Gillian Brown
@gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Here is the original target article by Baumard and André (2025) on which I have provided a commentary.
Other commentaries (e.g., by Borgerhoff Muller, Barrett, Feldman and others) can also be found on the Evolution & Human Behaviour journal website.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Other commentaries (e.g., by Borgerhoff Muller, Barrett, Feldman and others) can also be found on the Evolution & Human Behaviour journal website.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The ecological approach to culture
The prevailing view in the literature treats cultural dynamics as fundamentally distinct from other ecological processes—governed by a second system o…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Here is the original target article by Baumard and André (2025) on which I have provided a commentary.
Other commentaries (e.g., by Borgerhoff Muller, Barrett, Feldman and others) can also be found on the Evolution & Human Behaviour journal website.
🧵2/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Other commentaries (e.g., by Borgerhoff Muller, Barrett, Feldman and others) can also be found on the Evolution & Human Behaviour journal website.
🧵2/2
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
An evaluation of the concept of innateness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The concept of innateness is often used in explanations and classifications of biological
and cognitive traits. But does this concept have a legitimate role to play in contemporary
scientific discours...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sensible advice that was also well argued by Mameli and Bateson, e.g. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...