Mind In Evolution
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Author | : David C. Geary |
Publisher | : Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781591471813 |
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"Geary also explores a number of issues that are of interest in modern society, including how general intelligence relates to academic achievement, occupational status, and income."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Denise D. Cummins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780195110531 |
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In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.
Author | : Mark Schaller |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2011-03-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136950494 |
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An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which genetic adaptations govern the operations of the human mind. But evolutionary inquiries only occasionally grapple seriously with questions about human culture and cross-cultural differences. By contrast, cultural psychology documents many ways in which thought and behavior are shaped by different cultural experiences. But cultural inquires rarely consider evolutionary processes. Even after decades of intensive research, these two perspectives on human psychology have remained largely divorced from each other. But that is now changing - and that is what this book is about. Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary, cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters reveal many novel insights linking human evolution to both human cognition and human culture – including the evolutionary origins of cross-cultural differences. The result is a stimulating introduction to an emerging integrative perspective on human nature.
Author | : Peter Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000-11-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521789080 |
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This volume of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the evolution of the human mind.
Author | : Merlin Donald |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1993-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674253701 |
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This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
Author | : David Buss |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2015-10-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1317345746 |
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This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ne w Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with.
Author | : Henry Plotkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780140249279 |
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From the nature-nurture question which has occupied philosophers and scientists for thousands of years to the most recent debates about how the mind is structured, Plotkin looks at what it means to be human from an evolutionist's perspective.
Author | : Gary Hatfield |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013-04-19 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1934536490 |
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Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture.
Author | : Nicholas Humphrey |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999-06-18 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780387987194 |
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This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT
Author | : Joseph P. Forgas |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1136872981 |
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This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how evolutionary principles can shed new light on the subtle and often subconscious ways that cognitive mechanisms guide peoples’ thoughts, memories, judgments, attitudes and behaviors in social life. The contributors to this volume, who are leading researchers in their fields, seek answers to such intriguing questions as: how can evolutionary principles help to explain human beliefs, attitudes, judgments, prejudice, and group preferences? Are there benefits to behaving unpredictably? Why are prototypical faces more attractive than atypical ones? How do men and women think about, and select potential mates? What are the adaptive functions of negative affect? What are the evolutionary influences on the way people think about and respond to social exclusion and ostracism? Evolution and the Social Mind offers a highly integrated and representative coverage of this emerging field, and is suitable as a textbook in advanced courses dealing with social cognition and evolutionary psychology.