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The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture Revised ed. Edition

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Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the human mind, and with it a new framework for the behavioral and social sciences. First, with the advent of the cognitive revolution, human nature can finally be defined precisely as the set of universal, species-typical information-processing programs that operate beneath the surface of expressed cultural variability. Second, this collection of cognitive programs evolved in the Pleistocene to solve the adaptive problems regularly faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors--problems such as mate selection, language acquisition, cooperation, and sexual infidelity. Consequently, the traditional view of the mind as a general-purpose computer, tabula rasa, or passive recipient of culture is being replaced by the view that the mind resembles an intricate network of functionally specialized computers, each of which imposes contentful structure on human mental organization and culture. The Adapted Mind explores this new approach--evolutionary psychology--and its implications for a new view of culture.
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  5. Publication date
    October 19, 1995
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"There are two kinds of landmark publications in science: those that open a new era, like Darwin's Origin of Species, or those that mark an important waypoint in a scientific revolution that has already begun. The Adapted Mind is an example of the latter, comprising as it does a collection of eighteen papers by twenty-five authors which sum up and illustrate much of the best of our knowledge in the field of evolutionary psychology." --Christopher Baddock, London School of Economics, ESS Newsletter

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Introduces the new field of evolutionary psychology and the complex mechanisms that generate human behavior and culture

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0195101073
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 1995
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Revised ed.
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 688 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780195101072
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195101072
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.37 x 9.2 inches
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  • D. S. Heersink
    5.0 out of 5 stars Evolution from Several Vantages
    Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2002
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    This book is a massive tome on evolutionary factors that influence human behavior. It begins with clarification of the kind of Darwinism the authors appeal to, so that everyone is on the same page, and considers the general psychological foundations of Darwinism on culture.
    The book then moves on to discuss cognitive adaptations for social exchange, citing human and non-human examples. The book also includes the evolutionary psychology of mating and sex, examining preferences for mate selection and competition, mechanisms for sexual attraction, and the evolutionary use of women as chattel (something any Old Testament and Quran reader can relate to).
    A significant portion of the book is devoted to parental care and children, examining how pregnancy sickness, patterns between twins, maternal-infant vocalizations, and child play in the form of chasing each other are all evolutionary mechanisms that continue to be featured.
    Steven Pinker adds an essay on natural language and natural selection; Roger Shepard contributes an essay on the man's perceptual adaptation to the natural world; both of which demonstrate the interconnectedness between perception, language, and adaptation.
    The book concludes with some of its most esoteric issues: environmental aesthetics, intrapsychic processes, and the theoretical implications of culural phenomena.
    The whole book, while not necessarily over-academic, is ultimately dense reading. Most of the concepts and conceptualizations require mental work to apprehend, while the statistics and empirical evidence are clearly described. While drawing from many disparate areas of evolutionary biology, all the essays find their ultimate significance in how the mind, in particular, has adapted to environmental forces. A demanding, but facinating, read.
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  • Michael DeBellis
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best scientific books I've ever read. Anyone who takes the social sciences seriously must read this book.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2015
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    This is deep stuff, not for your average lay audience but if you are into cognitive and evolutionary psychology you must get this. The opening essay on why the social science should and often don't pay attention to scientific and evolutionary concepts was just incredible. I'm not exaggerating to say it literally changed the way I view the social sciences in a fundamental way. Any academic in the social sciences should read this book. And given the technical depth it is very readable. Highest recommendation.
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  • Subiaul
    4.0 out of 5 stars A very important book...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 1999
    Noticing that such few people wrote a review, I felt impelled to write one to the best of my ability. While I have several philosophical differences and while the field has changed since the initial publication, the book still remains in my mind as one of the most important books to date.
    In a nutshell, it presents for the first time, a new Social Science paradigm, one they call: Evolutionary Psychology. Whether one disagrees or not, their critique and attacks of the standard social science model which has dominated our thinking for years now is both convincing and inspiring. While disappointed by their largely nativist or innatist stance on almost everything, I remain confident that evolutionary psychology is sure to change many fields like psychology, linguistics, and I hope, anthropology.
    I highly recommend that you read this book but be sure to do so with great caution, keeping in mind that "what is simple is not always true and the truth is no simple maatter"...
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  • Jeffrey Niehaus
    5.0 out of 5 stars The source
    Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2009
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    What can I say? This is THE book, the apolitical manifesto, the thing that made me choose to get a PhD at Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, everything but the first chapter is illustration and example of the larger point, but if you want to debate evolutionary psychology with someone I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect your opponent to have read and understood Psychological Foundations of Culture (chapter 1).
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  • Ahmad Akbari
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016
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    Good book
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  • Joyce T.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Extremely interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2014
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    Excellent book. Extremely interesting.
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  • mss67@msn.com
    2.0 out of 5 stars Downsides of this book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 1999
    As my title indicates, in contrast to the contributors before me, i would like to point out some serious downsides of the book at hand. First though, i want to point out that it definitely is an interesting volume, with some quite important contributions. The downside mentioned above consists of a few articles which are outright bad, in that they either seem overly pan-adaptionistic or/and one cannot help but get the impression listening to a child screaming 'I'm right I'm right I'm right!'. A prime example of this last vice are 2 of the editors themselves, namely Tooby and Cosmides in their introduction article, which sadly clutters the book for already 130 of its about 600 pages. To me, they seem to be a prime example of investigators that badly need to step back for a while from their work, to free their minds and maybe become a little bit more open for contrasting views. Their dogmatic approach is almost ridiculed by their intense attacks on dogmatism they perceive on the side of social scientists.It might be a more promising approach to not inherit the mistakes of ones opponents. An example for pan-adaptionism, among some others, is Mr. Pinker. I don't think he needs further introduction here. He has some valid points, but mainly he relies on rhetoric to make up for missing research. There are some quite valuable articles in the book as well, so for example the one by J.Barkow or the research by Silverman/Eals. They make the book worth reading, if one keeps a keen eye for possible mistakes, overeagerness or unappropriate simplifications. The book rates somewhere between 2 and 3 stars for myself, since i don't believe in excessive superlatives as is often exhibited in these rating systems - meaning, ppl either scoring items with 5 or 1 star.
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  • Simon Knows Nothing
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cosmides and Tooby are the Greatest Living Evolutionary Theorists
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2021
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    It's not an easy read. And I've read almost every evolutionary biology book there is. But this is the answer. Or at least the door to the answer. Culture and sexual selection interacted over evolutionary time to create a mind architecture that is composed of a series of specialised sub units that do specific tasks with task specific information, extremely efficiently. Mate selection. Mate guarding. Language acquisition etc. The issue is how this loosely strung system of supercomputers stays stable in all the social situations that we find ourselves in. Evolution has somehow solved that problem, the interconnection issue. Though you sometimes get Jack the Ripper, or Mozart, or Trump.
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  • Carlos
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamental
    Reviewed in Spain on August 15, 2020
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    Calidad de impresión muy baja.
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  • NeilMcCauley67
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic collection
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2020
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    An epoch-marking collection bringing in the EP revolution in cognitive psychology.
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  • Die E
    3.0 out of 5 stars Gut, aber alt
    Reviewed in Germany on February 28, 2012
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    Das Buch ist ohne Zweifel ein sehr einflussreiches und umstrittenes, worauf ich hier aber nicht eingehen kann, da ich noch zu wenig gelesen habe.
    Meine Kritik richtet sich an die Form und äußere Erscheinung: Leider gibt es nur Text, extrem wenige Abbildungen, und die Schriftart ist älter. Könnte mal überarbeitet werden, ich selbst habe so den Eindruck, dass ich hier überholtes, eben "altes Zeug" lese.
    Äußere Erscheinung: Buch war nicht eingeschweißt und wirkte schon beim Auspacken abgegriffen (weiße Stellen auf dem blauen Cover), macht den Eindruck, als wäre es jahrelang als "Lagerhüter" im Versandlager gelegen, was zum muffigen Flair beiträgt.
    Bin daher etwas enttäuscht, aber wichtiger ist ja der Inhalt.
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