Gregory Sandstrom, Ph.D., publishes a paper in the book, "Evolution: Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms", edited by Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev (Uchitel Publishing House, Volgograd, 2013, pages 267-288). This paper is one among a sequence of papers proposing that an evolutionary understanding of humans is not enough.
When wondering about humans today, evolution poses a puzzle. Yet, there is no alternative to evolutionary theories for the humanities and social sciences.
Sandstrom offers human extension as an alternative paradigm that reverses the dialectic scientism of evolutionary ideologies.
Curiously, Sandstrom offers no explicit theory for human extension. It is almost as if he is offering a placeholder that contrasts with the way that evolutionary theory explains the discoveries of cognitive psychology. That placeholder is the term, "extension". Extension associates to sociology.
Is there an explicit theory that fits the concept of human extension, in contrast to the intensions associating to cognitive and evolutionary psychology?
Yes. The hypothesis of the first singularity fits the bill.
These comments start with a category-based nested form defining the word, "extension", and proceed to a sequence of strange actualities, variations on the Greimas square.