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D-Index
57
Citations
17979
World Ranking
1735
National Ranking
130

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • 2008 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Overview

Kim Sterelny is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and works primarily in social sciences and psychology. Their research spans several interdisciplinary subfields, including sociology and political science, cultural studies, social psychology, anthropology, and paleontology.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as language and cultural evolution, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, cultural differences and values, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, religion and society interactions, and indigenous studies and ecology.

Recent papers authored by Kim Sterelny include:

  • Demography and cultural complexity, 2020, published in Synthese
  • Veiled agency? Children, innovation and the archaeological record, 2021, Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Cumulative Culture, Archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions, 2024, Current Anthropology
  • Innovation, life history and social networks in human evolution, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Foragers and Their Tools: Risk, Technology and Complexity, 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science

Frequent publication venues for Sterelny include:

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Current Anthropology
  • Biological Theory
  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • Synthese

Kim Sterelny has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Peter Hiscock
  • Ronald J. Planer
  • Carl Brusse
  • Cameron Rouse Turner
  • Stephen Francis Mann

The scientist has published books with The MIT Press, notably From Signal to Symbol in 2021.

Awards received by Kim Sterelny include the Jean Nicod Prize from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2008 and Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.

    Kevin N. Laland;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Marcus W. Feldman;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny

  • Language and reality: An introduction to the philosophy of language

    Michael Devitt;Kim Sterelny

  • Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition

    Kim Sterelny

  • Does evolutionary theory need a rethink

    Kevin Laland;Tobias Uller;Marc Feldman;Kim Sterelny

  • Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

    Kim Sterelny;Paul E. Griffiths

  • Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

    Kevin N. Laland;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny;John Odling-Smee;William Hoppitt

  • Minds - Extended or Scaffolded

    Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny

  • The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction

    Kim Sterelny

  • The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique

    Kim Sterelny

  • Language and reality

    Michael Devitt;Kim Sterelny

  • The return of the Gene

    Kim Sterelny;Philip Kitcher

  • Perspective: seven reasons (not) to neglect niche construction.

    Kevin N. Laland;Kim Sterelny

  • Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest

    Kim Sterelny

  • What Is Biodiversity

    James Maclaurin;Kim Sterelny

  • Social Intelligence, Human Intelligence and Niche Construction

    Kim Sterelny

  • The extended replicator

    Kim Sterelny;Kelly C. Smith;Michael Dickison

  • Externalism, Epistemic Artefacts and The Extended Mind

    Kim Sterelny

  • The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited

    Brett Calcott;Kim Sterelny

  • The representational theory of mind

    Kim Sterelny

  • The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility.

    Sabine Tebbich;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny;Irmgard Teschke

  • The adapted mind

    Kim Sterelny

  • Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language.

    Samuel Guttenplan;Michael Devitt;Kim Sterelny

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Devitt
Michael Devitt City University of New York
Eva E. Stüeken
Eva E. Stüeken University of St Andrews
Roger Buick
Roger Buick University of Washington
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher Columbia University
Trudy F. C. Mackay
Trudy F. C. Mackay Clemson University
Gregory A. Wray
Gregory A. Wray Duke University
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Hopi E. Hoekstra Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University

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