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The evolution of mind : fundamental questions and controversies / edited by Steven W. Gangestad, Jeffry A. Simpson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Guilford Press, 2007Description: xv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1593854080
  • 9781593854089
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.7 22
LOC classification:
  • BF698.95 .E955 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
An introduction to The evolution of mind : why we developed this book / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson -- 1. Comprehensive knowledge of human evolutionary history requires both adaptationism and phylogenetics / Randy Thornhill -- 2. Natural psychology : the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and the structure of cognition / Edward H. Hagen and Donald Symons -- 3. Reconstructing the evolution of the mind is depressingly difficult / Paul W. Andrews -- 4. Reconstructing the evolution of the human mind / Eric Alden Smith -- 5. How the evolution of the human mind might be reconstructed / Steven Mithen -- 6. Reproductive success : then and now / Charles B. Crawford -- 7. On the utility, not the necessity, of tracking current fitness / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- 8. Why measuring reproductive success in current populations is valuable : moving forward by going backward / H. Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman -- 9. What nonhuman primates can and can't teach us about the evolution of mind / Craig B. Stanford -- 10. Who lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness? / Joan B. Silk -- 11. Chimpanzee and human intelligence : life history, diet, and the mind / Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan -- 12. Optimality approaches and evolutionary psychology : a call for synthesis / Hillard S. Kaplan and Steven W. Gangestad -- 13. The games people play / Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban -- 14. Dynamical evolutionary psychology and mathematical modeling : quantifying the implications of qualitative biases / Douglas T. Kenrick and Jill M. Sundle -- 15. Functional specialization and the adaptationist program / Elsa Ermer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- 16. Modules in the flesh / H. Clark Barrett -- 17. The developmental dynamics of adaptation / Hunter Honeycutt and Robert Lickliter -- 18. An alternative evolutionary psychology? / Kim Sterelny -- 19. Development as the target of evolution : a computational approach to developmental systems / H. Clark Barrett -- 20. Evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory / Debra Lieberman -- 21. The importance of developmental biology to evolutionary biology and vice versa / Randy Thornhill -- 22. The role of group selection in human psychological evolution / David Sloan Wilson -- 23. Group selection : a tale of two controversies / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- 24. On detecting the footprints of multilevel selection in humans / Robert Kurzban and C. Athena Aktipis -- 25. The hominid entry into the cognitive niche / H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- 26. Runaway social selection in human evolution / Mark Flinn and Richard Alexander -- 27. Key changes in the evolution of human psychology / Steven Mithen -- 28. Brain evolution and the human adaptive complex : an ecological and social theory / Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven and Jane B. Lancaster -- 29. Evolution of the social brain / Robin Dunbar -- 30. Brain evolution / Geoffrey Miller -- 31. E pluribus unum : too many unique human capacities and too many theories / Barbara L. Finlay -- 32. The motivation to control and the evolution of general intelligence / David C. Geary -- 33. The g-culture coevolution / Satoshi Kanazawa -- 34. General intellectual ability / Steven Mithen -- 35. Cultural adaptation and maladaptation : of kayaks and commissars / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- 36. The envelope of human cultures and the promise of integrated behavioral sciences / Pascal Boyer -- 37. The linked red queens of human cognition, coalitions, and culture / Mark Flinn and Kathryn Coe -- 38. Evolutionary biology, cognitive adaptations, and human culture / Kim Hill -- 39. Representational epidemiology : skepticism and gullibility / Robert Kurzban -- 40. Turning garbage into gold : evolutionary universals and cross-cultural differences / Mark Schaller -- 41. The evolution of human mating strategies : consequences for conflict and cooperation / David M. Buss -- 42. Social structural origins of sex differences in human mating / Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly -- 43. The evolution of women's estrus, extended sexuality, and concealed ovulation, and their implications for human sexuality research / Randy Thornhill -- Whither science of the evolution of mind? / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to The evolution of mind : why we developed this book / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson -- 1. Comprehensive knowledge of human evolutionary history requires both adaptationism and phylogenetics / Randy Thornhill -- 2. Natural psychology : the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and the structure of cognition / Edward H. Hagen and Donald Symons -- 3. Reconstructing the evolution of the mind is depressingly difficult / Paul W. Andrews -- 4. Reconstructing the evolution of the human mind / Eric Alden Smith -- 5. How the evolution of the human mind might be reconstructed / Steven Mithen -- 6. Reproductive success : then and now / Charles B. Crawford -- 7. On the utility, not the necessity, of tracking current fitness / Monique Borgerhoff Mulder -- 8. Why measuring reproductive success in current populations is valuable : moving forward by going backward / H. Kern Reeve and Paul W. Sherman -- 9. What nonhuman primates can and can't teach us about the evolution of mind / Craig B. Stanford -- 10. Who lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness? / Joan B. Silk -- 11. Chimpanzee and human intelligence : life history, diet, and the mind / Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan -- 12. Optimality approaches and evolutionary psychology : a call for synthesis / Hillard S. Kaplan and Steven W. Gangestad -- 13. The games people play / Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban -- 14. Dynamical evolutionary psychology and mathematical modeling : quantifying the implications of qualitative biases / Douglas T. Kenrick and Jill M. Sundle -- 15. Functional specialization and the adaptationist program / Elsa Ermer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- 16. Modules in the flesh / H. Clark Barrett -- 17. The developmental dynamics of adaptation / Hunter Honeycutt and Robert Lickliter -- 18. An alternative evolutionary psychology? / Kim Sterelny -- 19. Development as the target of evolution : a computational approach to developmental systems / H. Clark Barrett -- 20. Evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory / Debra Lieberman -- 21. The importance of developmental biology to evolutionary biology and vice versa / Randy Thornhill -- 22. The role of group selection in human psychological evolution / David Sloan Wilson -- 23. Group selection : a tale of two controversies / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- 24. On detecting the footprints of multilevel selection in humans / Robert Kurzban and C. Athena Aktipis -- 25. The hominid entry into the cognitive niche / H. Clark Barrett, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- 26. Runaway social selection in human evolution / Mark Flinn and Richard Alexander -- 27. Key changes in the evolution of human psychology / Steven Mithen -- 28. Brain evolution and the human adaptive complex : an ecological and social theory / Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven and Jane B. Lancaster -- 29. Evolution of the social brain / Robin Dunbar -- 30. Brain evolution / Geoffrey Miller -- 31. E pluribus unum : too many unique human capacities and too many theories / Barbara L. Finlay -- 32. The motivation to control and the evolution of general intelligence / David C. Geary -- 33. The g-culture coevolution / Satoshi Kanazawa -- 34. General intellectual ability / Steven Mithen -- 35. Cultural adaptation and maladaptation : of kayaks and commissars / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- 36. The envelope of human cultures and the promise of integrated behavioral sciences / Pascal Boyer -- 37. The linked red queens of human cognition, coalitions, and culture / Mark Flinn and Kathryn Coe -- 38. Evolutionary biology, cognitive adaptations, and human culture / Kim Hill -- 39. Representational epidemiology : skepticism and gullibility / Robert Kurzban -- 40. Turning garbage into gold : evolutionary universals and cross-cultural differences / Mark Schaller -- 41. The evolution of human mating strategies : consequences for conflict and cooperation / David M. Buss -- 42. Social structural origins of sex differences in human mating / Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly -- 43. The evolution of women's estrus, extended sexuality, and concealed ovulation, and their implications for human sexuality research / Randy Thornhill -- Whither science of the evolution of mind? / Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson.

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