[ECCO] Gary Cziko's freely downloadable books--full

[Francis Heylighen]

I am regularly asked about good introductory books to the domain of 
evolution, cybernetics and cognition, and I generally answer that 
these are difficult to find. Gary Cziko's "Without Miracles" about 
the universality of the principle of natural selection across 
disciplines is one of the few exceptions.

By browsing the web, I just found out that he has written a second 
book "The Things We Do. Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to 
Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior" which uses 
evolution and the feedback-based, cybernetic theory of William Powers 
to explain cognition and behavior. Both books are easy to read, and 
cover a very broad range of applications while focusing on the 
underlying principles. They are both published by MIT Press, and can 
be freely downloaded from Gary's website:

http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/g-cziko/
--
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html