by dynamical systems approaches. Instead, Deacon argues that life- or mind-like properties only emerge from a higher-order reciprocal relationship between self-organizing processes. Bibliography Books The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1997. Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2011. Articles and essays Deacon, T.W. (1989). "Holism and associationism in neuropsychology: an anatomical synthesis." in E. Perecman (Ed.), Integrating Theory and Practice in Clinical Neuropsychology. Erlbaum. Hilsdale, NJ. 1-47. Deacon, T.W. (1990). "Rethinking mammalian brain evolution." Am Zool. 30:629–705. Deacon, T.W. (1997). "What makes the human brain different?" Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 26: 337-57. Deacon, T.W. (2001). "Heterochrony in brain evolution." In Parker et al. (eds.), Biology, Brains, and Behavior. SAR Press, pp. 41–88. Deacon, T.W. (2006). "Emergence: The Hole at the Wheel’s Hub." Chapter 5 in P. Clayton & P. Davies (Eds.), The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion. Oxford University Press, pp. 111–150. Deacon, T.W. (2006). "Reciprocal linkage between self-organizing processes is sufficient for self-reproduction and evolvability." Biological Theory 1(2):136-149. Deacon, T.W. (2007). "Shannon-Boltzmann-Darwin: Redefining Information. Part 1." Cognitive Semiotics 1:123-148. Deacon, T.W. (2008). "Shannon-Boltzmann-Darwin: Redefining Information. Part 2." Cognitive Semiotics 2:167-194. Kull, Kalevi; Deacon, Terrence; Emmeche, Claus; Hoffmeyer, Jesper; Stjernfelt, Frederik. (2009). Theses on biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a theoretical biology. Biological Theory 4(2): 167–173. Deacon, T.W. (2010). "A role for relaxed selection in the evolution of the language capacity." PNAS.107:9000-9006. Deacon, T.W. (2010). "On the Human: Rethinking the natural selection of human language" External links Terrence Deacon's home page at the University of California, Berkeley - including online publications Teleodynamics.org for a repository of publications Interview with Terrence Deacon on the co-evolution of language and the brain Participants: Terrence W. Deacon, a biography in connection with his participation in “God, Matter, and Information: What is Ultimate?”, a 2006 symposium in Copenhagen. Chronicle of Higher Education article on UC-Berkeley's exoneration of Deacon (Incomplete Nature controversy) See also Entention References Living people American semioticians American anthropologists Linguists from the United States Theoretical biologists Human evolution theorists University of California, Berkeley faculty Boston University faculty Harvard University faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1950 births New England Complex Systems Institute