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Jonathan Egeland

@jonathanegeland.bsky.social
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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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Jonathan Egeland @jonathanegeland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This should work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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Jonathan Egeland @jonathanegeland.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In our new Evolution and Human Behavior paper, we examine the social function of uniquely human intelligence 🧠 Give it a read! sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to my coauthors: Leif Kennair and @thomaskleppesto.bsky.social
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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Interesting, first of the commentaries on Baumard & André to appear that defends dual inheritance...
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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…
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Jonathan Egeland @jonathanegeland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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…
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