The Adapted Mind
The Adapted Mind
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With the advent of what has become known as the cognitive revolution, psychologists are now exploring the evolved problem-solving and information-processing mechanisms that allow humans to absorb and generate culture. This book introduces the newly emerging field of evolutionary psychology.
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The Adapted Mind by Barkow
Anthropologists have long recognized that cultural evolution critically depends on the transmission and generation of information. However, between the selection pressures of evolution and the actual behaviour of individuals, scientists have suspected that other processes are at work. With the advent of what has come to be known as the cognitive revolution, psychologists are now exploring the evolved problem-solving and information-processing mechanisms that allow humans to absorb and generate culture. The purpose of this book is to introduce the newly crystallizing field of evolutionary psychology, which supplied the necessary connection between the underlying evolutionary biology and the complex and irreducible social phenomena studied by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians.
This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate* The Economist, January, 1992 *
This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate. * The Economist *
... a massive tome that throws considerable light on a number of issues ... The Adapted Mind is a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture. It brings together many well-written and scholarly chapters that do much to articulate the salient issues and give state of the art overviews. * Paul Gilbert, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 66 *
one cannot afford to ignore it * Glenn D. Wilson, Person.individ. Diff. Vol. 15, No. 5, 1993 *
a collection of eighteen papers by twenty-five authors which sum up and illustrate much of the best of our knowledge in the field of evolutionary psychology * Christopher Badcock, London School of Economics, ESS Newsletter No. 36, October 1994 *
This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate. * The Economist *
... a massive tome that throws considerable light on a number of issues ... The Adapted Mind is a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture. It brings together many well-written and scholarly chapters that do much to articulate the salient issues and give state of the art overviews. * Paul Gilbert, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 66 *
one cannot afford to ignore it * Glenn D. Wilson, Person.individ. Diff. Vol. 15, No. 5, 1993 *
a collection of eighteen papers by twenty-five authors which sum up and illustrate much of the best of our knowledge in the field of evolutionary psychology * Christopher Badcock, London School of Economics, ESS Newsletter No. 36, October 1994 *
Baron-Cohen, Simon: - Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, is the author of Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1997) and The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Mind.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195101072 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195101073 |
| Title | The Adapted Mind |
| Author | Barkow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1996-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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