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Evolutionary approaches to information science research and information use

✍ Scribed by Amanda Spink; James “Kip” Currier; Charles Cole

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
50 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-7870

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✦ Synopsis

For more than twenty years, many leading social scientists have been exploring the question: How has evolution shaped human cognition and behavior? (Barkow, Tooby & Cosmides, 1992;Buss, 1995). Many social scientists are developing their fields of inquiry within a human evolutionary framework, including evolutionary biology, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive archeology. Incorporating the study of information use into an evolutionary framework broadens considerably the traditional information science concern for information and problem solving, task performance and the sources/ channels of information seeking.

Important and challenging issues for the field of information science are the relationship between information and evolution, and how evolution has shaped information behavior, specifically information use. The panel will discuss the recent emergence of evolutionary

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