Publications Not going to talk about brain business or about hominid evolution, see my How Brains Think . Going to stick to levels of organization and Darwinian processes, the what and how of consciousness, a little of the why . Lingua ex Machina is my closest book to this talk .
Evolution just means change , in particular, the unfolding of a new pattern from an old one.
There are less interesting versions, such as what marching bands do at halftime, grounded in well-practiced naval, infantry, and dance maneuvers. Biological evolution isn t all of evolution, is indeed a special case but one that allows us to see how the crank can be turned. And the Darwinian process may well work in other media than carbon-based life forms. Similarly the C word is another one of those words with a dozen connotations. It is not an entity.