Introduction: Mind-Culture Coevolution (Benzon 2003)

The Core Theory

The Evolution of Cognition (Benzon & Hays 1990)

The Evolution of Expressive Culture (Hays 1992)

The Evolution of Technology Through Four Cognitive Ranks (Hays 1993)

The Evolution of Narrative and the Self (Benzon 1993)

Stages in the Evolution of Music (Benzon 1993)

Culture as an Evolutionary Arena (Benzon 1996)

A short comment from a biologist on William Benzon's essay (Hans-Cees Speel 1996) [off-site]

Culture's Evolutionary Landscape: A Reply to Hans-Cees Speel (Benzon 1996)

Related Papers

Principles and Development of Natural Intelligence (Benzon and Hays 1988)

Metaphor, Recognition, and Neural Process (Benzon and Hays 1987)

Why Natural Selection Leads to Complexity (Benzon and Hays 1990)

Music Making History: Africa Meets Europe in the United States of the Blues (Benzon 1997)

Pursued by Knowledge in a Fecund Universe. A review of John Horgan's The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (Benzon 1996)

Colorless Green Homunculi. A Review of Robert Aunger's The Electric Meme (Benzon 2002) [off-site]

I would like to acknowledge the support of Paul Levinson. Almost all of the work David Hays and I have done on cultural evolution has appeared in the journal he edits, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, or has been published through his organization, Connected Education, Inc. Without his support and encouragement this work would not have been possible.

I also thank Paul Kelly for hosting this material.