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Concept: Future thinking/mental time travel

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Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School

Evolutionary Anthropology in the Primary School – a pre-service primary teacher module

Levin, M., & Dennett, D. C. (2020). Cognition all the way down. Aeon Essays.

Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones).

Garon, N. M., Longard, J., Bryson, S. E., & Moore, C. (2012). Making decisions about now and later: Development of future-oriented self-control. Cognitive Development, 27(3), 314–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.05.003

Atance, C. M., & Jackson, L. K. (2009). The development and coherence of future-oriented behaviors during the preschool years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102(4), 379–391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.001

Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2005). The emergence of episodic future thinking in humans. Learning and Motivation, 36(2 SPEC. ISS.), 126–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2005.02.003

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