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In this chapter, Bowen and Gleeson consider the evolved ideational foundations of human settlements, illustrate their effects on features of the built environment, and describe how the mind has evolved to enable the use of artificial selection in giving shape to human settlements. Because the mind is what the brain does, both are products of evolution. The brain is the anatomical seat of human culture, and therefore it and its products are at the center of evolved human settlements. The human brain and the conscious human mind enable us to imagine ourselves and our world, to invent, and to act upon ideas that drive the evolution of human settlements.
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Bowen, W.M., Gleeson, R.E. (2019). Theory of Mind in Settlement System Evolution. In: The Evolution of Human Settlements. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95034-1_8
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