Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of mind / edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colin Allen.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

• Lawrence, Paul R.
• Cummins, Denise D.
• Allen, Colin

Description

vi, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.

Subject

• Thinking
• Psychology, Comparative
• Biological Evolution
• Cognition
• Behavior evolution
• Cognition and culture
• Genetic psychology

Genre/Form

Essay

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0195110536 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97028321^

OCLC

37246453

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library