• Editors’ Review and Introduction: The Cultural Evolution of Cognition 

      Beller, Sieghard; Bender, Andrea; Jordan, Fiona (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This topic addresses a question of key interest to cognitive science, namely which factors may have triggered, constrained, or shaped the course of cognitive evolution. It highlights the relevance of culture as a driving ...
    • The role of culture and evolution for human cognition 

      Bender, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-08)
      Since the emergence of our species at least, natural selection based on genetic variation has been replaced by culture as the major driving force in human evolution. It has made us what we are today, by ratcheting up ...
    • The value of diversity in cognitive science 

      Bender, Andrea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A recent article (Núñez et al., 2019) claims that cognitive science, while starting off as a multidisciplinary enterprise, has “failed to transition to a mature inter‐disciplinary coherent field.” Two indicators reported ...