Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 Organs of Computation Steven Pinker 1
2 Phïlosophy in the Flesh George Lakoff 11
3 Parallel Memories: Putting Emotions Back into the Brain Joseph Ledoux 31
4 Sexual Selection and the Mind Geoffrey Miller 49
5 Rescuing Memory Steven Rose 63
6 How Is Personality Formed? Frank Sulloway 79
7 Mirror Neurons and Imitation Learning as the Driving Force Behind "the Great Leap Forward" in Human Evolution V. S. Ramachandran 101
8 A Self Worth Having Nicholas Humphrey 113
9 You Can't Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel Philip Zimbardo 129
10 The Neurology of Self-Awareness V. S. Ramachandran 147
11 Eudaemonia: The Good Life Martin Seligman 153
12 What Are Numbers, Really? A Cerebral Basis for Number Sense Stanislas Dehaene 169
13 The Assortative Mating Theory Simon Baron-Cohen 181
14 Toxo: The Parasite that Is Manipulating Human Behavior Robert Sapolsky 191
15 Amazing Babies Alison Gopnik 201
16 Signatures of Consciousness Stanislas Dehaene 217
17 How Can Educated People Continue to Be Radical Environmentalists? David Lykken 239
18 Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion Jonathan Haidt 251
