Nathalie Gontier

Biographic Data

ID668889
NAMENathalie Gontier
GIVEN NAMESNathalie
FAMILY NAMEGontier
SIGNATUREGONTIER N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0001-6382-7740
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Beyond the tree

    Open AccessBárbara Jiménez Pazos, Nathalie GontierARTICLELanguage & Communication2026

    Time plays a central role in evolutionary theory. In this paper, we examine the language Darwin used to describe time in his work On the Origin of Species . We present the results of a computationally assisted lexical-semantic analysis of word frequencies, variations, and contextual meanings of time-related lexical items across the six editions of the Origin . Focusing on terms such as cycle , circle , chain , scale , line , tree (of life) , prog…

  • Evolving Views on the Science of Evoluton

    Nathalie GontierARTICLEAcademic Questions2024

    Nathalie Gontier takes us on a romp through the predominant schools of evolutionary thought: Darwinism, the Modern Synthesis, Micro-, Meso-, and Macroevolution, Ecology, and Reticulate Evolution. Today, writes Gontier, no school “holds a privileged position over the other, and all have provided valid means whereby to study the pluralistic nature of evolution

  • Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Everyday Primate Skills

    Open AccessNathalie GontierARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Cited by: 1References: 130

    Human language, hominin tool production modes, and multimodal communications systems of primates and other animals are currently well-studied for how they display compositionality or combinatoriality. In all cases, the former is defined as a kind of hierarchical nesting and the latter as a lack thereof. In this article, I extend research on combinatoriality and compositionality further to investigations of everyday primate skills. Daily locomotio…

  • Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Communication, Skills, Tool Use, and Language

    Open AccessNathalie Gontier, Stefan Hartmann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024References: 34

  • Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s

    Open AccessNathalie Gontier, Monika Boruta Żywiczyńska et al.ARTICLELingua2024References: 6

  • Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution

    Andrew Lock, Nathalie Gontier et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Human Symbolic…2023

  • Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communities

    Open AccessNathalie Gontier, Anton SukhoverkhovARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2023

    This paper investigates how reticulate evolution contributes to a better understanding of human sociocultural evolution in general, and community formation in particular. Reticulate evolution is evolution as it occurs by means of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, infective heredity, and hybridization. From these mechanisms and processes, we mainly zoom in on symbiosis and we investigate how it underlies the rise of (1) human, plant…

  • Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality

    Open AccessNathalie GontierARTICLEJournal for General Philosophy of…2021

  • Evolutionary Epistemology

    Open AccessNathalie Gontier, Michael BradieARTICLEJournal for General Philosophy of…2021

  • Psychic Unity

    Open AccessMarta Facoetti, Nathalie GontierCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Evolutionary…2020

  • Cosmological and phenomenological transitions into how humans conceptualize and experience time

    Nathalie GontierARTICLETime and Mind2018References: 1

    Cosmographies associated with Western cosmologies demonstrate transformations from classic wheels of time and chains of being to scales of nature, chronologies, and pedigrees. Pedigrees in turn are converted into linear timelines, bifurcating trees, and multidirectional networks. These diagrammatical transitions associate with changes in how time is conceptualized – as circular, linear, multilinear, multidirectional, and perhaps as non-existent. …

  • What are the levels and mechanisms/processes of language evolution

    Open AccessNathalie GontierARTICLELanguage Sciences2017Cited by: 1References: 61

  • The evolution of (proto-)language

    Open AccessPrzemysław Żywiczyński, Nathalie Gontier et al.ARTICLELanguage Sciences2017Cited by: 4References: 57

  • Macroevolution

    Emanuele Serrelli, Nathalie GontierBOOKMacroevolution2015

  • Uniting Micro- with Macroevolution into an Extended Synthesis

    Nathalie GontierCHAPTERMacroevolution2015

  • Evolution of Social Communication in Primates

    Marco Pina, Nathalie GontierBOOKEvolution of Social Communication…2014

  • The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates

    Open AccessMarco Pina, Nathalie GontierBOOKEvolution of Social Communication…2014

  • Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

    Open AccessNathalie Gontier, Jean Paul Van Bendegem et al.BOOKEvolutionary Epistemology,…2006

    Wuketits Like cats and dogs: Radical constructivism and evolutionary epistemology,Alexander Riegler The biological boundary conditions for our classical physical world view,Olaf Diettrich Is the real world something more than the world of our experience? Relation between Neodarwinian logic, transcendental philosophy and cognitive sciences,Adrianna Wozniak Universal Darwinism and process essentialism,Derek Turner PART 2: Evolutionary Epistemology …