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- Reticulate evolution everywherePublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Pointing and the Evolution of Language: An Applied Evolutionary Epistemological ApproachPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Time: The Biggest Pattern in Natural History ResearchPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- What are the levels and mechanisms/processes of language evolution?Publication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communitiesPublication . Gontier, Nathalie; Sukhoverkhov, AntonThis paper investigates how reticulate evolution contributes to a better understanding of human sociocultural evolution in general, and community formation in particular. Reticulate evolution is evolution as it occurs by means of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, infective heredity, and hybridization. From these mechanisms and processes, we mainly zoom in on symbiosis and we investigate how it underlies the rise of (1) human, plant, animal, and machine interactions typical of agriculture, animal husbandry, farming, and industrialization; (2) diet‐microbiome relationships; and (3) host‐virome and other pathogen interactions that underlie human health and disease. We demonstrate that reticulate evolution necessitates an understanding of behavioral and cultural evolution at a community level, where reticulate causal processes underlie the rise of synergistic organizational traits.
- Pathologies and the origin of language: an epistemological reflectionPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Universal symbiogenesis: a genuine alternative to universal selectionist accountsPublication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Genes, Brains, and Language: Would Someone Please Pull the Brakes?Publication . Gontier, Nathalie
- Non-genetic inheritance: Evolution above the organismal levelPublication . Sukhoverkhov, Anton; Gontier, Nathalie