The Evolution of Mind : Fundamental Questions and Controversies


Steven W. Gangestad
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
New York : : Guilford Publications, , 2007.
Omfang
1 online resource (464 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; An Introduction to The Evolution of Mind: Why We Developed This Book; PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: THE MEANS OF DARWINIAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; Issue 1: How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed; 1 Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics; 2 Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness and the Structure of Cognition; 3 Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mind Is Depressingly Difficult; 4 Reconstructing the Evolution of the Human Mind. - 19 Development as the Target of Evolution: A Computational Approach to Developmental Systems20 Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Systems Theory; 21 The Importance of Developmental Biology to Evolutionary Biology and Vice Versa; Issue 7: The Role of Group Selection; 22 The Role of Group Selection in Human Psychological Evolution; 23 Group Selection: A Tale of Two Controversies; 24 On Detecting the Footprints of Multilevel Selection in Humans; PART III: DEBATES CONCERNING IMPORTANT HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY OUTCOMES; Issue 8: Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology. - 25 The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche26 Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution; 27 Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology; Issue 9: Brain Evolution; 28 Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An Ecological and Social Theory; 29 Evolution of the Social Brain; 30 Brain Evolution; 31 E Pluribus Unum: Too Many Unique Human Capacities and Too Many Theories; Issue 10: General Intellectual Ability; 32 The Motivation to Control and the Evolution of General Intelligence; 33 The g-Culture Coevolution; 34 General Intellectual Ability; Issue 11: Culture and Evolution. - 35 Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation: Of Kayaks and Commissars. - 5 How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might be ReconstructedIssue 2: The Role of Tracking Current Evolution; 6 Reproductive Success: Then and Now; 7 On the Utility, Not the Necessity, of Tracking Current Fitness; 8 Why Measuring Reproductive Success in Current Populations Is Valuable: Moving Forward by Going Backward; Issue 3: Our Closest Ancestors; 9 What Nonhuman Primates Can and Can't Teach Us about the Evolution of Mind; 10 Who Lived in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness?; 11 Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life History, Diet, and the Mind. - Issue 4: The Role of Examining the Costs and Benefits of Behaviors12 Optimality Approaches and Evolutionary Psychology: A Call for Synthesis; 13 The Games People Play; 14 Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology and Mathematical Modeling: Quantifying the Implications of Qualitative Biases; PART II: FUNDAMENTAL METATHEORETICAL ISSUES; Issue 5: The Modularity of Mind; 15 Functional Specialization and the Adaptationist Program; 16 Modules in the Flesh; Issue 6: Development as the Target of Evolution; 17 The Developmental Dynamics of Adaptation; 18 An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology?. - 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. Top
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1593854080. - 9781593854089

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