Editors

About the Editor

Series Editor: Nathalie Gontier, Mind, Language and Action Group, Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica s/n, 4150-564 Porto; & Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal.

Nathalie Gontier (PhD) studies how evolutionary theories develop in biology; how they are applied to study symbolic (behavioral, sociocultural, and linguistic) evolution; and how both are depicted in diagrams and cosmographies such as cycles, chains, scales, timelines, trees, and networks. Besides writing volumes and papers, lecturing, and speaking on results obtained from research, she actively engages in dissemination activities by editing books and academic journals on these topics; and by contributing to worldwide community building by organizing conferences and workshops as well as by coordinating education initiatives. She is a Researcher contracted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, and an Integrated Member of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, where she is affiliated to the Mind, Language, and Action Group. Her work has so far been sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, The Center for Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, the John Tempelton Foundation, the Marie Curie Actions, the American Museum of Natural History, the Konrad Lorenz Institute, the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research, and the Dutch Free University of Brussels. 

Her personal page can be found @ https://sites.google.com/view/nathaliegontier

Editorial Board:

Michael Bradie, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA

Maria Botero, Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA

Iain Davidson, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Francisco Dionisio, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Charbel El-Hani, History, Philosophy, and Biology Teaching Laboratory, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

Arantza Etxeberria, IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain

Roslyn M. Frank, European Society for Astronomy in Culture; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Francesco Ferretti, Cosmic Lab: Cognition, Social Multimodal Interaction and Communication Laboratory, Department of Philosophy and Communication, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

Augusta Gaspar, Centre for Psychological Research and Intervention, Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal

Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Misato Hayashi, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan

Lydia Hopper, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL, USA

John Hunter, Department of Comparative and Digital Humanities, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

Mary Lee Jensvold, Fauna Foundation, Carignan, QC, Canada

Carl Knappett, Mediterranean Archaeology Collaborative Specialization, Department of History of Art, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

David Leavens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

David Morrison, Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Networks, Systematic Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Roland Mühlenbernd, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

April Nowell, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Mark Pagel, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK

Elena Pagni, Department of Philosophy, Institute for Human Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Anna Prentiss, Department of Anthropology, College of Humanities and Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA

Timothy Racine, Psychological Foundations Lab, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Eugenia Ramirez-Goicoechea, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain

António J. Santos, William James Centre for Research, ISPA - University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal

Peter Saunders, Institute of Science in Society, Department of Mathematics, King's College, London, UK

James A. Shapiro, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Chris Sinha, Department of Cognitive Science, Hunan University, Changsha, China

Sune Vork Steffensen, Centre for Human Interactivity, Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

David Suárez Pascal, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Science, UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Francesco Suman, Pikaia -The Evolution Portal, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Sandra Swart, History Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Monica Tamariz, School of Social Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Ian Tattersall, Department of Anthropology, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

Natalie Uomini, Language Origin Society, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

Natasha Vita-More, Information Science Department, University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, Tempe, USA

Slawomir Wacewicz, Center for Language Evolution Studies, Department of Linguistics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Douglas Zook, Global Ecology Education Initiative, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Boston School for the Environment, Boston, USA