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SUMMARY:Our Ways: Toolmaking and the Origins of Normative Cognition - Prof
 essor Jonathan Birch (LSE)
DTSTART:20181003T153000Z
DTEND:20181003T163000Z
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CONTACT:Laura van Holstein
DESCRIPTION:I argue that the guidance of action by norms is a central part
  of the cognitive architecture underlying skilled action in humans\, inclu
 ding individual motor skill. From this starting point\, I explore the conn
 ections between the evolution of normative guidance and the evolution of s
 kill. I propose that the evolution of norm-guided skill was an important w
 atershed in human evolution\, and that the first norm-guided skills may ha
 ve been standardized toolmaking techniques. The expansion of the normative
  domain beyond technique to encompass norms of reciprocity\, ritual\, kins
 hip and fairness involved the elaboration of a basic platform for the guid
 ance of skilled action by technical norms.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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