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Sociality, cognition, communication, and language are united in human living; they escape explanation by any one theory. This chapter considers two evolutionary accounts of these realities. The first is Maturana and Varela’s idea of “knowing is doing.” On this foundation, Varela and his associates develop a theory of enactive cognition and contrast it with representational theories of cognition. The second theory, of Derek Bickerton, proposes that language has developed not from communications but from representations, and traces the evolution of representations.
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Bausch, K.C. (2001). Social and Cognitive Evolution. In: The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1263-9_4
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