Evolutionary Psychology: A Clinical IntroductionJohn Wiley & Sons, 31 мая 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 318 According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes. But, as Christopher Badcock points out in this book, it is only recently that evolutionists have realized that minders need minds, and that evolution needs psychology to fill the yawning gap between genes and behaviour. Evolutionary Psychology assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and concentrates on the fundamental issues raised by the application of modern Darwinism to psychology. Basic concepts of evolution are explained carefully, so that the reader has a sound grasp of them before their often controversial application to psychology is discussed. The approach is a critical one, and the author does not hide the many difficulties that evolutionary psychology raises. Examples include the strange neglect of Darwin's own writings on psychology, and the fact that no existing theory has succeeded in explaining why the human brain evolved in the first place. The book is the first to give a non-technical account of remarkable new findings about the roles that conflicting genes play in building different parts of the brain. It is also the first to consider the consequences of this for controversies like those over nature/nurture, IQ, brain lateralization and consciousness. Evolutionary Psychology is based on many years experience of teaching evolution and psychology to social science students, and is intended for all who wish to get to grips with the basic issues of one of the most exciting and rapidly growing areas of modern science. |
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... Cosmides 1997: 293). Box 1.2 The human environment of evolutionary adaptedness The term 'environment of evolutionary adaptedness', or EEA for short, was first introduced by the psychoanalyst, John Bowlby (1907–1990), and today has ...
... Cosmides, Tooby and Barkow claim that One can usetheories of adaptive function to help one discover psychologicalmechanisms that were previously unknown. When one is tryingtodiscoverthe structureof an informationprocessing systemas ...
... Cosmides and John Tooby, inorder toshow that somethingis 'an adaptation to perform a particularfunction, onemust showthatitis particularly welldesigned for performing that function, and that it cannot be better explained.
... (Cosmides and Tooby 1987). The problem here is that judging how 'particularly well designed' somethingis introduces whatmight seem like asubjective value judgement, and certainly raises difficultieswhere adaptations are clearly flawed ...
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Genetics and Epigenetics | |
The Evolution and Psychology of Cooperation | |
and Mind Emotion Consciousness | |
Suggestions for further reading 6 Growth Developmentand Conflict | |
Nature Nurture Language andCulture Evolutionary psychology and theSSSM Memes | |
Glossary of TechnicalTerms | |
Notes | |
Index | |