Adapting minds: evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature

by Buller, David J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Adapting minds : evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature / David J. Buller.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006, ©2005.
Edition:1st MIT Press paperback ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006, ©2005.

Notes

"A Bradford book".

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 550 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262524600, 9780262524605, 0262025795, 9780262025799
oclc:ocn300314794
LC Classification:BF701
Dewey Decimal:155.7

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 fisnished with us yet -- Epilogue.