Ebook: Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition
- Tags: Social evolution, Evolution (Biology) -- Social aspects, Human evolution -- Philosophy, Cultural fusion, SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution, Biological Evolution, Adaptation Biological, Adaptation Psychological, Cognition -- physiology, Cultural Evolution, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution, COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
- Series: Vienna series in theoretical biology.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Language: English
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'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 Read more...