The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and ControversiesSteven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson In the past two decades, an explosion of research has generated many compelling insights--as well as hotly debated controversies--about the evolutionary bases of human nature. This important volume brings together leading proponents of different theoretical and methodological perspectives to provide a balanced look at 12 key questions at the core of the field today. In 43 concise, accessible chapters, followed by an integrative conclusion, the contributors present viewpoints informed by human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene-culture coevolutionary approaches. Topics include the strengths and limitations of different methodologies; metatheoretical issues; and debates concerning the evolution of the human brain, intellectual abilities, culture, and sexual behavior. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 78
Page xi
... Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed 1 Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics 31 Randy Thornhill 2 Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary ...
... Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed 1 Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics 31 Randy Thornhill 2 Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary ...
Page xiii
... Human Evolutionary Outcomes Issue 8. Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution Mark Flinn and ...
... Human Evolutionary Outcomes Issue 8. Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution Mark Flinn and ...
Page 2
... evolutionary psychology (Tooby & Cosmides, 1989). During the last two decades, the study of the evolutionary foundations of human nature has grown at an exponential rate. In fact, it is now a booming interdisciplinary scientific ...
... evolutionary psychology (Tooby & Cosmides, 1989). During the last two decades, the study of the evolutionary foundations of human nature has grown at an exponential rate. In fact, it is now a booming interdisciplinary scientific ...
Page 3
... Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (1999), Gaulin and McBurney's Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach (2001), Cartwright's Evolution and Human Behavior (2000), Barrett, Dunbar, and Lycett's Human Evolutionary ...
... Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (1999), Gaulin and McBurney's Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach (2001), Cartwright's Evolution and Human Behavior (2000), Barrett, Dunbar, and Lycett's Human Evolutionary ...
Page 4
... evolution— human evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene–culture coevolution. We briefly describe, compare, and contrast the major tenets of each approach below. Human Sociobiology Wilson's Sociobiology (1975) brought ...
... evolution— human evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene–culture coevolution. We briefly describe, compare, and contrast the major tenets of each approach below. Human Sociobiology Wilson's Sociobiology (1975) brought ...
Contents
1 | |
23 | |
PART II Fundamental Metatheoretical Issues | 145 |
PART III Debates Concerning Important Human Evolutionary Outcomes | 233 |
Whither Science of the Evolution of Mind? | 397 |
Index | 439 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ability adaptationism adaptationist adaptive problems ancestral environments Anthropology apes approach argue Barrett behavioral ecologists benefits Borgerhoff Mulder Boyd Buss Byrne Cambridge causal chimpanzees cognitive mechanisms complex computational cooperation Cosmides culture Darwin developmental systems domains Dunbar ecological estrus evidence evolutionary biology evolutionary history evolutionary psychology evolved example exaptation favored fitness Flinn foraging function Gangestad genes genetic group selection hominid human behavior human behavioral ecology human brain human evolution human evolutionary human mating hunter-gatherer hypotheses important individuals inferences intelligence interactions issues Kaplan language male Mithen models modern humans modular modules natural selection Neanderthals neocortex norms one’s organisms Oxford University Press perspective phenotypic phylogenetic Pleistocene primates processes produce psychological adaptations REFERENCES relative reproductive success Richerson role selection pressures sexual selection social selection Sociobiology solve species strategies structure Thornhill tion Tooby traits understanding variation women York