The Evolution of Mind :Fundamental Questions and Controversies

Publication subTitle :Fundamental Questions and Controversies

Author: Gangestad> Steven W.  

Publisher: Guilford Publications Inc‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781593856625

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781593854089

Subject: B844 发展心理学(人类心理学)

Keyword: 社会学,心理学派别及其研究

Language: ENG

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In the past two decades, an explosion of research has generated many compelling insights--as well as hotly debated controversies--about the evolutionary bases of human nature. This important volume brings together leading proponents of different theoretical and methodological perspectives to provide a balanced look at 12 key questions at the core of the field today. In 43 concise, accessible chapters, followed by an integrative conclusion, the contributors present viewpoints informed by human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene-culture coevolutionary approaches. Topics include the strengths and limitations of different methodologies; metatheoretical issues; and debates concerning the evolution of the human brain, intellectual abilities, culture, and sexual behavior.

Chapter

PART I. Methodological Issues: The Means of Darwinian Behavioral Science

1. Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics

2. Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness and the Structure of Cognition

3. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mind Is Depressingly Difficult

4. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Human Mind

5. How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed

6. Reproductive Success: Then and Now

7. On the Utility, Not the Necessity, of Tracking Current Fitness

8. Why Measuring Reproductive Success in Current Populations Is Valuable: Moving Forward by Going Backward

9. What Nonhuman Primates Can and Can’t Teach Us about the Evolution of Mind

10. Who Lived in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness?

11. Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life History, Diet, and the Mind

12. Optimality Approaches and Evolutionary Psychology: A Call for Synthesis

13. The Games People Play

14. Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology and Mathematical Modeling: Quantifying the Implications of Qualitative Biases

PART II. Fundamental Metatheoretical Issues

15. Functional Specialization and the Adaptationist Program

16. Modules in the Flesh

17. The Developmental Dynamics of Adaptation

18. An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology?

19. Development as the Target of Evolution: A Computational Approach to Developmental Systems

20. Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Systems Theory

21. The Importance of Developmental Biology to Evolutionary Biology and Vice Versa

22. The Role of Group Selection in Human Psychological Evolution

23. Group Selection: A Tale of Two Controversies

24. On Detecting the Footprints of Multilevel Selection in Humans

PART III. Debates Concerning Important Human Evolutionary Outcomes

25. The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche

26. Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution

27. Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology

28. Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An Ecological and Social Theory

29. Evolution of the Social Brain

30. Brain Evolution

31. E Pluribus Unum: Too Many Unique Human Capacities and Too Many Theories

32. The Motivation to Control and the Evolution of General Intelligence

33. The g-Culture Coevolution

34. General Intellectual Ability

35. Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation: Of Kayaks and Commissars

36. The Envelope of Human Cultures and the Promise of Integrated Behavioral Sciences

37. The Linked Red Queens of Human Cognition, Coalitions, and Culture

38. Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Adaptations, and Human Culture

39. Representational Epidemiology: Skepticism and Gullibility

40. Turning Garbage into Gold: Evolutionary Universals and Cross-Cultural Differences

41. The Evolution of Human Mating Strategies: Consequences for Conflict and Cooperation

42. Social Structural Origins of Sex Differences in Human Mating

43. The Evolution of Women’s Estrus, Extended Sexuality, and Concealed Ovulation, and Their Implications for Human Sexuality Research

Whither Science of the Evolution of Mind?

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