Publications on cognitive biology, culture (including science) and politics:


  1. 1.Kovac, L. (1995) Biopedagogy: teaching and learning in the optics of cognitive biology. In: Stransky, Z. Z. (ed.) (1995) The University on the Threshold of the New Millennium. Vol. I. Masaryk University, Brno, pp. 83-88

  2. 2.Kovac, L. (1995) A plea for scientific humanism. A speech at the occasion of conveying a UNESCO prize for peace education

  3. 3.Kovac, L. (1995) Science and technology, central planning and the market: a lesson from the communist failure. Proc. Int. Symp. on Biotechnology. Manila, Philippines

  4. 4.Kovac, L. and Kollarova, M. (1996) Molecular biology and Alexander Dubcek. International interdisciplinary conference, Bratislava, 66, 76

  5. 5.Kovac, L. (1999) Evolutionary primacy of emotions: The brain is a gland and psychoses are emotional derangement. Abstract of a lecture at the Symposium on Evolutionary Theory and Psychopathology, New York

  6. 6.Kovac, L. (1999) European culture in the global conflict of cultures: a view of a biologist In: Fukac, J., Chlup, Z., Mizerova, A. and Schauerova, A. (eds) The crossroads of European culture. Vutium Press, Brno, pp. 435-446

  7. 7.Kovac, L. (2000) Fundamental principles of cognitive biology. Evolution and Cognition 6, 51-69

  8. 8.Kovac, L. (2002) The two cultures revisited: New widening gaps. World Futures 58: 1-11

  9. 9.Kovac, L. (2002) The failure of Communism: a case for evolutionary rationalism and evolutionary humanism. Dialogue and Universalism

  10. 10.Kovac, L. (2002) Epistemology af artifacts. Abstract of a communication at the Karl Popper centenary congress, Vienna 2002, Abstract book, p.4

  11. 11.Kovac, L. (2002) Natural history of Communism. I. Pliability of human beings and immutability of human nature. Central Europ. Polit. Sci. Rev. 3, 74-110

  12. 12.Kovac, L. (2002) Natural history of Communism. II. Autonomous dynamics of memes and institutions. Central Europ. Polit. Sci. Rev. 3, 111-164

  13. 13.Kovac, L. (2003) Human consciousness is an outcome of a runaway process of emotional selection. Abstract of the conference on consciousness, Prague, July 2003

  14. 14.Kovac, L. (2003) Science and 11 September: A lesson of relevance. World Futures 59, 319-334

  15. 15.Kovac, L. (2003) Experimental politics. Abstract for a Conference of International Political Science Organization, Durban

  16. 16.Kovac, L. (2004) Beyond utopias: Evolutionary rationalism and noocracy. Conference “Modern biology and the visions of humanity”, Genoa 22-23 March 2004. Published: (1) In English: European Communities (ed.) Modern biology and visions of humanity. Multiscience publishing co., Essex, pp. 125-137. (2) In French: Communauté européenne (ed.) Biologie moderne et visions de l´humanité. De Boeck & Larcier, Bruxelles, pp. 135-148. (3) In Italian: Casa Editrice Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, pp. 127-140

  17. 17.Kovac, L. (2005) Yeast as a cognitive system. Yeast 22, S15

  18. 18.Kovac, L.(2005) Humans transcending biology: Epistemology of artifacts. Conference „Science and today´s vision of the world“. Instituto Veneto, Venice. March 11-13, 2005

  19. 19.Kovac, L.(2006) Science, an essential part of culture. EMBO Rep. 7, 128-132

  20. 20.Kovac, L. (2006) Life, chemistry and cognition. EMBO Reports 7, 562-566

  21. 21.Kovac, L.(2007) Human causal reasoning: „the magical number“ three. Pansophia 2, 13-15

  22. 22.Kovac, L. (2007) Information and knowledge in biology. Time for reappraisal. Plant Signalling & Behavior 2, 65-73

  23. 23.Kovac, L. (2007) Physics, mind, society: back and forth. Appl. Magn. Reson. 31, 11-28

  24. 24.Kovac, L. (2008) „Finitics.“ A plea for biological realism. EMBO Reports 9, 703-708.

  25. 25.Kovac, L. (2008) Bioenergetics – a key to brain and mind. Commun. Integr. Biol. 1, 114-122.

  26. 26.Kovac, L. (2009) Causal reasoning: the 'magical number' three. EMBO Reports 10, 418.

  27. 27.Kovac, L. (2009) The jugglery of a mythophilic animal. EMBO Reports 10, 937.

  28. 28.Kovac, L. (2010)  The 20W sleep-walkers. EMBO Reports 11, 2.

  29. 29.Kovac, L. (2010) A ‘metaphising’ dung beetle. EMBO Reports 11, 410. [manuscript]