Adapted Mind (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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Further Details Title: Adapted Mind Condition: New Subtitle: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture ISBN-10: 0195101073 EAN: 9780195101072 ISBN: 9780195101072 Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Format: Paperback Release Date: 11/01/1996 Description: Anthropologists have long recognized that cultural evolution critically depends on the transmission and generation of information. However, between the selection pressures of evolution and the actual behaviour of individuals, scientists have suspected that other processes are at work. With the advent of what has come to be known as the cognitive revolution, psychologists are now exploring the evolved problem-solving and information-processing mechanisms that allow humans to absorb and generate culture. The purpose of this book is to introduce the newly crystallizing field of evolutionary psychology, which supplied the necessary connection between the underlying evolutionary biology and the complex and irreducible social phenomena studied by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 155mm Item Width: 30mm Item Weight: 966g Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Science Nature & Math Contributor: Barkow (Edited by), Cosmides (Edited by), Tooby (Edited by) Author: No Author Release Year: 1996 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
