Adapting Minds Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature

Name: Adapting Minds Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
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ISBN: 9780262524605

ISBN-10: 0262524600

ISBN-13: 9780262524605

Edition: 2006

Authors: David J. Buller

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Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was -- that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology -- the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slateand by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire-- and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. …

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 564
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.00" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Evolution


The Nature of Evolution


The Causes of Evolution


Adaptation


Phenotypic Variation



Mind


The Evolution of Behavior


The Adapted Mind


The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness


Modularity and the Adapted Mind


"Human Nature"



Adaptation


Adaptationism?


Adaptation Hunting


"Our Modern Skulls House a Stone-Age Mind"


Psychological Differences and Our "Common Nature"



Modularity



Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology


The Arguments for Modularity Reconsidered


The Empirical Evidence for Modularity Reconsidered


On Domain-General Mechanisms



Mating


"The Evolution of Desire"


Men Seeking Women


Women Seeking Men


Concluding Skeptical Remarks



Marriage


What Is Marriage?


Keeping Myself Only unto You


The Green-Eyed Monster



Parenthood


Discriminative Parental Solicitude


What Is "The Truth about Cinderella"?


Trying to Understand Parents



"Human Nature"


Human Nature: The Very Idea


Essentialism, Part I: "Normal" People


Essentialism, Part II: Species


"Human Universals"


Please Be Patient; Evolution Isn't Finished with Us Yet


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index