Adapted Mind Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

Name: Adapted Mind Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
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ISBN: 9780195101072

ISBN-10: 0195101073

ISBN-13: 9780195101072

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

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From reviews of the hardback: "A fascinating book which deserves a wide audience." European Medical Journal "a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture." British Journal of Medical Psychology Researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, but it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have been made which have highlighted these changes. This book introduces the newly crystallizing field of evolutionary psychology to a wider scientific audience and…

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List price: $94.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 9.13" wide x 6.10" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Introduction




Theoretical Framework



The Psychological Foundations of Culture




On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human behavior




Cooperation



Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange




Two Non-human Primate Models for theEvoltion of Human Food-Sharing: Chimpanzees and Callitrichids




The Psychology of Mating and Sex



Mate Preference Mechanisms: Consequences for Partner Choice andIntrasexual Competition




The Evolution of Sexual Attraction: Evaluative Mechanisms in Women




The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel




Parental Care and Children



Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to MaternalIngestion of Teratogens




Nurturance or Negligence: Maternal Psychology and BehavioralPreference among Preterm Twins




Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically RelevantSignals: An Evolutionary Perspective




The Social Nature of Play Fighting and PlayChasing: Mechisms and Strategies Underlying Cooperation and Compromise




Perception and Language as Adaptations



Natural Language and Natural Selection




The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of theTerrestrial World? R.N. Shepherd



Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: EvolutionaryTheory and Data




Environmental Aesthetics



Evolved Responses to Landscapes




Environmental Preference in a Knowledge-Seeking, Knowledge UsingOrganism




Intrapsychic Processes



The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms




Understanding Evolutionarily New Cultural Forms



Beneath New Culture Is Old Psychology: Gossip, Class, and theEnvironment