The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and ControversiesAn accessible reference, this book features short essays with selective references. Studies of evolutionary foundations of human nature have grown exponentially, so this body of knowledge is expanding rapidly. A wide range of eminent contributors promote synthesis across the social, behavioral, and life sciences. |
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Contents
Contributors | 15 |
Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics | 31 |
The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness and the Structure of Cognition | 38 |
Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mind Is Depressingly Difficult | 45 |
Reconstructing the Evolution of the Human Mind | 53 |
How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed | 60 |
Robin Dunbar PhD School of Biological Sciences University of Liverpool | 63 |
Richard Alexander PhD Museum of Zoology University of Michigan | 66 |
The Importance of Developmental Biology to Evolutionary Biology and Vice Versa | 203 |
The Role of Group Selection in Human Psychological Evolution | 213 |
A Tale of Two Controversies | 221 |
Debates Concerning Important | 233 |
Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution | 249 |
Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology | 256 |
Evolution of the Social Brain | 280 |
Brain Evolution | 287 |
Then and Now | 69 |
On the Utility Not the Necessity of Tracking Current Fitness | 78 |
Moving Forward by Going Backward | 86 |
What Nonhuman Primates Can and Cant Teach Us about the Evolution of Mind | 97 |
Who Lived in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness? | 103 |
Life History Diet and the Mind | 111 |
A Call for Synthesis | 121 |
The Games People Play | 130 |
Quantifying the Implications of Qualitative Biases | 137 |
Functional Specialization and the Adaptationist Program | 153 |
Modules in the Flesh | 161 |
The Developmental Dynamics of Adaptation | 171 |
An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology? | 178 |
A Computational Approach to Developmental Systems | 186 |
Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Systems Theory | 193 |
Too Many Unique Human Capacities | 294 |
The Motivation to Control and the Evolution | 305 |
The gCulture Coevolution | 313 |
General Intellectual Ability | 319 |
Of Kayaks | 327 |
The Linked Red Queens of Human Cognition Coalitions | 339 |
Evolutionary Biology Cognitive Adaptations | 348 |
Skepticism and Gullibility | 357 |
Evolutionary Universals and CrossCultural Differences | 363 |
Consequences for Conflict and Cooperation | 375 |
Social Structural Origins of Sex Differences in Human Mating | 383 |
The Evolution of Womens Estrus Extended Sexuality and Concealed Ovulation and Their Implications for Human | 391 |
Whither Science of the Evolution of Mind? | 397 |
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