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. |
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... phenotypes of organisms, including how organisms evolved to interact with both their physical environments and with one another. When theorists eventually turned their attention to this task in the 1960s and 1970s, they discovered that ...
... phenotypes of organisms, including how organisms evolved to interact with both their physical environments and with one another. When theorists eventually turned their attention to this task in the 1960s and 1970s, they discovered that ...
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... phenotypes imposed by particular local ecologies. Human behavioral ecologists (also known as evolutionary or Darwinian anthropologists) began to apply this approach to account for variation within and between human populations. In ...
... phenotypes imposed by particular local ecologies. Human behavioral ecologists (also known as evolutionary or Darwinian anthropologists) began to apply this approach to account for variation within and between human populations. In ...
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... phenotypic traits. Some of these traits, namely, specific adaptations, were favored by natural selection for their reproductive benefits. Other traits, called “by-products,” were not directly selected, but were incidental effects of ...
... phenotypic traits. Some of these traits, namely, specific adaptations, were favored by natural selection for their reproductive benefits. Other traits, called “by-products,” were not directly selected, but were incidental effects of ...
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... phenotypes” of organisms, and they are subjected to selection pressures. Although psychological adaptations could mediate how selection operates on genes, evolutionary anthropologists argued that there are advantages to keeping ...
... phenotypes” of organisms, and they are subjected to selection pressures. Although psychological adaptations could mediate how selection operates on genes, evolutionary anthropologists argued that there are advantages to keeping ...
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... phenotypic trait on the Tree of Life is caused by the developmental transformation of an ancestral phenotype. As West-Eberhard (2003) has emphasized, biologists erroneously have restricted ontogenetic causes to the proximate causal ...
... phenotypic trait on the Tree of Life is caused by the developmental transformation of an ancestral phenotype. As West-Eberhard (2003) has emphasized, biologists erroneously have restricted ontogenetic causes to the proximate causal ...
Contents
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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 |
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