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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David J Buller |
| ISBN: | 0262524600 9780262524605 |
| OCLC Number: | 63185911 |
| Notes: | "A Bradford book." Originally published: 2005. |
| Description: | 550 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Evolution: Nature of evolution ; Causes of evolution ; Adaptation ; Phenotypic variation -- Mind: Evolution of behavior ; Adapted mind ; Environment of evolutionary adaptedness ; Modularity and the adapted mind ; "Human Nature" -- Adaptation: Adaptationism? ; Adaptation hunting ; "Our modern skulls house a stone-age mind" ; Psychological differences and our "common nature" -- Modularity: Evolutionary psychology, meet developmental neurobiology ; Arguments for modularity reconsidered ; Empirical evidence for modularity reconsidered ; On domain-general mechanisms -- Mating: "Evolution of desire" -- Men seeking women ; Women seeking men ; Concluding skeptical remarks -- Marriage: What is marriage? ; Keeping myself only unto you ; Green-eyed monster -- Parenthood: Discriminative parental solicitude ; What is "The truth about Cinderella"? ; Trying to understand parents -- "Human nature": Human nature: the very idea ; Essentialism, Part 1: "Normal" people ; Essentialism, Part II: species ; "Human universals" ; Please be patient; evolution isn't finished with us yet -- Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | David J. Buller. |
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