The Adapted Mind (Paperback)

Barkow

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Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 1996

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Paperback. Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the human mind, and with ita new framework for the behavioral and social sciences. First, with the advent of the cognitive revolution, human nature can finally be defined precisely as the set of universal, species-typicalinformation-processing programs that operate beneath the surface of expressed cultural variability. Second, this collection of cognitive programs evolved in the Pleistocene to solve the adaptive problems regularly faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors--problems such as mate selection, language acquisition, cooperation, and sexual infidelity. Consequently, the traditional view of the mind as a general-purpose computer, tabula rasa, or passive recipient of culture is being replaced by the viewthat the mind resembles an intricate network of functionally specialized computers, each of which imposes contentful structure on human mental organization and culture. The Adapted Mind explores thisnew approach--evolutionary psychology--and its implications for a new view of culture. An edited volume of original, commissioned papers centered on the complex, evolved psychological mechanisms that generate human behaviour and culture. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Adapted Mind (Paperback)
Author
Barkow
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Publication year
1996
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0195101073
ISBN 13
9780195101072

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