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The Adapted Mind

Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

The Adapted Mind
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Introduction, J. Tooby and L. Cosmides PART I: Theoretical Framework 1. The Psychological Foundations of Culture, J. Tooby and L. Cosmides 2. On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human Behavior, D. Symons PART II: Cooperation 3. Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange, L. Cosmides and J. Tooby 4. Two Non-human Primate Models for the Evolution of Human Food-Sharing: Chimpanzees and Callitrichids, W. C. McGrew and A.T.C. Feistner PART III: The Psychology of Mating and Sex 5. Mate Preference Mechanisms: Consequences for Partner Choice and Intrasexual Competition, D. Buss 6. The Evolution of Sexual Attraction: Evaluative Mechanisms in Women, B. Ellis 7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel, M. Wilson and M. Daly PART IV: Parental Care and Children 8. Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens, M. Profet 9. Nurturance or Negligence: Maternal Psychology and Behavioral Preference among Preterm Twins, J. Mann 10. Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspective, A. Fernald 11. The Social Nature of Play Fighting and Play Chasing: Mechanisms and Strategies Underlying Cooperation and Compromise, M.J. Boulton and P.K. Smith PART V: Perception and Language as Adaptations 12. Natural Language and Natural Selection, S. Pinker and P. Bloom 13. The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of the Terrestrial World? R.N. Shepherd 14. Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Evolutionary Theory and Data, I. Silverman and M. Eals PART VI: Environmental Aesthetics 15. Evolved Responses to Landscapes, G.H. Orians and J.H. Heerwagen 16. Environmental Preference in a Knowledge-Seeking, Knowledge Using Organism, S. Kaplan PART VII: Intrapsychic Processes 17. The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms, R. M. Nesse and A.T. Lloyd PART VIII: Understanding Evolutionarily New Cultural Forms 18. Beneath New Culture Is Old Psychology: Gossip, Class, and the Environment, J.H. Barkow
Oxford University Press; January 1996
679 pages; ISBN 9780195356472
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