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Associate professor of philosophy at the University of Agder and Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Interested in evolutionary theory and behavioral science.

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I think it might be from his review of Wilson’s Consilience. Segerstråle discusses the joke in one of the last chapters of her book on sociobiology.

27.02.2026 06:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coalitional Psychology and the Evolution of Intelligence As evolutionary and behavioral scholars have long noted, humans are “uniquely unique,” partly due to our remarkable cognitive sophistication. Since Da…

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10.02.2026 18:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Coalitional Psychology and the Evolution of Intelligence As evolutionary and behavioral scholars have long noted, humans are “uniquely unique,” partly due to our remarkable cognitive sophistication. Since Da…

This should work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.02.2026 18:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In our new Evolution and Human Behavior paper, we examine the social function of uniquely human intelligence 🧠 Give it a read!

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Thanks to my coauthors: Leif Kennair and @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social

10.02.2026 17:22 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Cultural evolution and the beneficiary question The ecological approach to culture extends the inclusive fitness tradition by proposing that cultural phenomena are best understood as extended phenot…

Interesting, first of the commentaries on Baumard & André to appear that defends dual inheritance...

20.06.2025 12:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cultural evolution and the beneficiary question The ecological approach to culture extends the inclusive fitness tradition by proposing that cultural phenomena are best understood as extended phenot…

New commentary article in Evolution and Human Behavior.

Does cultural evolution involve its own system of inheritance, or are cultural phenomena mere vehicles produced by the genes in order to facilitate their (i.e., the genes’) self-copying success?

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20.06.2025 14:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0