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The Evolution Of Mind : Fundamental Questions And Controversies

  • The Evolution Of Mind : Fundamental Questions And  Controversies
  • Attribution

    edited by Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson
  • Publication Details

    Book, Guilford Press, 2007
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BF698.95 .E955 2007  AVAILABLE

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    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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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  • Contents

    • Comprehensive knowledge of human evolutionary history requires both adaptationism and phylogenetics / Randy Thornhill
    • Natural psychology : the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and the structure of cognition / Edward H. Hagen and Donald Symons
    • Reconstructing the evolution of the mind is depressingly difficult / Paul W. Andrews
    • Reconstructing the evolution of the human mind / Eric Alden Smith
    • How the evolution of the human mind might be reconstructed / Steven Mithen
    • Reproductive success : then and now / Charles B. Crawford
    • On the utility, not the necessity, of tracking current fitness / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
    • Why measuring reproductive success in current populations is valuable : moving forward by going backward / H. Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman
    • What nonhuman primates can and can’t teach us about the evolution of mind / Craig B. Stanford
    • Who lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness? / Joan B. Silk
    • Chimpanzee and human intelligence : life history, diet, and the mind / Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan
    • Optimality approaches and evolutionary psychology : a call for synthesis / Hillard S. Kaplan and Steven W. Gangestad
    • The games people play / Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban
    • Dynamical evolutionary psychology and mathematical modeling : quantifying the implications of qualitative biases / Douglas T. Kenrick and Jill M. Sundie
    • Functional specialization and the adaptationist program / Elsa Ermer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
    • Modules in the flesh / H. Clark Barrett
    • The developmental dynamics of adaptation / Hunter Honeycutt and Robert Lickliter
    • An alternative evolutionary psychology? / Kim Sterelny
    • Development as the target of evolution : a computational approach to developmental systems / H. Clark Barrett
    • Evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory / Debra Lieberman
    • The importance of developmental biology to evolutionary biology and vice versa / Randy Thornhill
    • The role of group selection in human psychological evolution / David Sloan Wilson
    • Group selection : a tale of two controversies / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson
    • On detecting the footprints of multilevel selection in humans / Robert Kurzban and C. Athena Aktipis
    • The hominid entry into the cognitive niche / H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
    • Runaway social selection in human evolution / Mark Flinn and Richard Alexander
    • Key changes in the evolution of human psychology / Steven Mithen
    • Brain evolution and the human adaptive complex : an ecological and social theory / Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven and Jane B. Lancaster
    • Evolution of the social brain / Robin Dunbar
    • Brain evolution / Geoffrey Miller
    • E pluribus unum : too many unique human capacities and too many theories / Barbara L. Finlay
    • The motivation to control and the evolution of general intelligence / David C. Geary
    • The g-culture coevolution / Satoshi Kanazawa
    • General intellectual ability / Steven Mithen
    • Cultural adaptation and maladaptation : of kayaks and commissars / Robert Boyd
    • The envelope of human cultures and the promise of integrated behavioral sciences / Pascal Boyer
    • The linked red queens of human cognition, coalitions, and culture / Mark Flinn and Kathryn Coe
    • Evolutionary biology, cognitive adaptations, and human culture / Kim Hill
    • Representational epidemiology : skepticism and gullibility / Robert Kurzban
    • Turning garbage into gold : evolutionary universals and cross-cultural differences / Mark Schaller
    • The evolution of human mating strategies : consequences for conflict and cooperation / David M. Buss
    • Social structural origins of sex differences in human mating / Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly
    • The evolution of women’s estrus, extended sexuality and concealed ovulation, and their implications for human sexuality research / Randy Thornhill
    • Final thoughts / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson
  • ISBN

    • 1593854080
    • 9781593854089
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