The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

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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 it a new framework for the behavioral and social ...
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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 it a 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-typical information-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 view that 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 this new approach--evolutionary psychology--and its implications for a new view of culture.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780195060232
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 8/1/1992
  • Pages: 688
  • Product dimensions: 6.38 (w) x 9.56 (h) x 1.47 (d)

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Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

University of California at Santa Barbara

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Table of Contents

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Introduction: Evolutionary Psychology and Conceptual Integration 3
I The Evolutionary and Psychological Foundations of the Social Sciences
1 The Psychological Foundations of Culture 19
2 On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human Behavior 137
II Cooperation
3 Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange 163
4 Two Nonhuman Primate Models for the Evolution of Human Food Sharing: Chimpanzees and Callitrichids 229
III The Psychology of Mating and Sex
5 Mate Preference Mechanisms: Consequences for Partner Choice and Intrasexual Competition 249
6 The Evolution of Sexual Attraction: Evaluative Mechanisms in Women 267
7 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel 289
IV Parental Care and Children
8 Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens 327
9 Nurturance or Negligence: Maternal Psychology and Behavioral Preference Among Preterm Twins 367
10 Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspective 391
11 The Social Nature of Play Fighting and Play Chasing: Mechanisms and Strategies Underlying Cooperation and Compromise 429
V Perception and Language as Adaptations
12 Natural Language and Natural Selection 451
13 The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of the Terrestrial World? 495
14 Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Evolutionary Theory and Data 533
VI Environmental Aesthetics
15 Evolved Responses to Landscapes 555
16 Environmental Preference in a Knowledge-Seeking, Knowledge-Using Organism 581
VII Intrapsychic Processes
17 The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms 601
VIII New Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Phenomena
18 Beneath New Culture Is Old Psychology: Gossip and Social Stratification 627
Author Index 639
Subject Index 657
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