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Titre(s) : The adapted mind [Texte imprimé] : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture / edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby
Édition : [2nd. ed.], 1srt issued as an Oxford university press paperback, cop. 1992
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 1995
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII- 666 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Psychological foundations of culture / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides ; On the use and
misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior / Donald Symons ; Cognitive adaptations
for social exchange / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby ; Two nonhuman primate models for
the evolution of human food sharing : chimpanzees and callitrichids / W.C. McGrew
and Anna T.C. Feistner ; Mate preference mechanisms : consequences for partner choice
and intrasexual competition / David M. Buss ; Evolution of sexual attraction : evaluative
mechanisms in women / Bruce J. Ellis ; Man who mistook his wife for a chattel / Margo
Wilson and Martin Daly ; Pregnancy sickness as adaptation : a deterrent to maternal
ingestion of teratogens / Margie Profet ; Nurturance or negligence : maternal psychology
and behavioral preference among preterm twins / Janet Mann ; Human maternal vocalizations
to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective / Anne Fernald
; Social nature of play fighting and play chasing : mechanisms and strategies underlying
cooperation and compromise / Michael J. Boulton and Peter K. Smith ; Natural language
and natural selection / Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom ; Perceptual organization of
colors : an adaptation to regularities of the terrestrial world? / Roger N. Shepard
; Sex differences in spatial abilities : evolutionary theory and data /Irwin Silverman
and Marion Eals ; Evolved responses to landscapes / Gordon H. Orians and Judith H.
Heerwagen ; Environmental preference in a knowledge-seeking, knowledge-using organism
/ Stephen Kaplan ; Evolution of psychodynamic mechanisms / Randolph M. Nesse and Alan
T. Lloyd ; Beneath new culture is old psychology : gossip and social stratification
/ Jerome H. Barkow
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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, co-operation, 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Barkow, Jerome H.. Éditeur scientifique
Cosmides, Leda. Éditeur scientifique
Tooby, John. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Évolution (biologie)
Psychologie génétique
Adaptation (psychologie)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0195060237. - ISBN 9780195060232. - ISBN 0195101073. - ISBN 9780195101072 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43737112p
Notice n° :
FRBNF43737112
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