Tom Deadman

I was just about to send this to you before I realised you posted it! Very cool

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurodiversity: Implications for Autistic People and Clinicians - Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Objectives Early theories of autism aligned closely with contemporaneous theories of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the time. Since then, autism has developed into its own research field, and...

I was introduced through this paper- cool ideas about how neurodiversity emerges across human brains, but I guess the next step is all brains... and I felt like there must be some deep link to development and diversity in biology generally! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is very interesting! I've been reading some of the Annette Karmiloff-Smith/neuroconstructivism + interactive specialisation stuff lately, but I don't often see this kind of work and the more computational stuff mentioned together. Maybe approaching the same thing from different angles?

I really like this idea! I see a lot of stuff in anthropology focusing on energy expenditure, and it always strikes me how easy the importance of energy is to miss doing research in industrialised countries with plenty of calories...

Very much enjoyed this paper + this discussion btw!

Very naive question from a PhD student here- what exactly does it mean for all behaviour to evolve? I can get my head around what it means for all organs to have evolved or even cognitive modules because there's 'something' to act on, but I don't quite 'get' how this is true for behaviour