Charles Lumsden's Of Biocultural Mathematics and Mind is too long for me to summarize in my half roused state. Nevertheless, I suspect some of you will find it of interest....
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(This review appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2005)
This seems like a good time to drop a link to Bill Benzon, a freelancer who posts at The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/).
His book is "Beethoven's Anvil" -- an approach to music in terms of social and biological evolution.
On the web he ahs "Mind-Culture Coevolution: Major Transitions in the Development of Human Culture and Society" (http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/)