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| Genre/Form: | Essays |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Denise D Cummins; Colin Allen |
| ISBN: | 0195110536 9780195110531 |
| OCLC Number: | 37246453 |
| Description: | vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Ecological intelligence: an adaptation for frequencies / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Social norms and other minds: the evolutionary roots of higher cognition / Denise Dellarosa Cummins -- Building a cognitive creature from a set of primitives: evolutionary and developmental insights / Marc Hauser and Susan Carey -- An evolved capacity for number / Karen Wynn -- Cognitive ethology: the minds of children and animals / Carolyn A. Ristau -- Playing with play: what can we learn about cognition, negotiation, and evolution / Marc Bekoff -- The evolution of reference / Colin Allen and Eric Saidel -- Some issues in the evolution of language and thought / Paul Bloom -- Morgan's canon / Elliott Sober -- Do's and don't's for Darwinizing psychology / Lawrence A. Shapiro. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colin Allen. |
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<br>"A superb and stimulating book containing contributions from the top minds in evolutionary cognitive psychology. Chapters are uniformly high level and ground breaking. The book signals a scientific revolution in the Darwinizing of cognitive psychology. A must read for all psychological researchers, as well as those who want or need to keep up with the cutting edge."--David M. Buss, author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating<p><br>"In the last few years evolutionary psychology has become one of the hottest areas of research in the cognitive sciences. The essays that Cummins and Allen have assembled make it very clear why this new interdisciplinary field is so exciting, challenging, and controversial. The book includes cutting edge essays that are absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the mind and how it evolved."--Stephen P. Stich, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University<p><br>"With the question of animal minds featured on the cover of Newsweek and columnists from the New York Times going at each other over evolutionary psychology, it should be obvious to everyone that behavioral science is entering a new era. A good slogan for this era may be 'no psychology without biology; no biology (at least for mammals) without psychology.' The work that Cummins and Allen have brought together constitutes not just a manifesto for this new era, but is chockfull of exciting ideas about how we can empirically study the evolution of mind in both humans and other animals."--Dale Jamieson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder<p><br>"One of the most significant achievements of evolutionary psychology has been to seriously question the traditional view that we possess a general-purpose intelligence that can analyse any aspect of human experience with equal aplomb. Humanity in the image of a divine being is perhaps the most extreme expression and source of this view. In contrast, an evolutionary perspect Read more...
