| Description |
xii, 666 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction, J. Tooby and L. Cosmides -- PART I: Theoretical Framework -- 1. The Psychological Foundations of Culture, J. Tooby and L. Cosmides -- 2. On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human Behavior, D. Symons -- PART II: Cooperation -- 3. Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange, L. Cosmides and J. Tooby -- 4. Two Non-human Primate Models for the Evoltion of Human Food-Sharing: Chimpanzees and Callitrichids, W. C. McGrew and A.T.C. Feistner -- PART III: The Psychology of Mating and Sex -- 5. Mate Preference Mechanisms: Consequences for Partner Choice and Intrasexual Competition, D. Buss -- 6. The Evolution of Sexual Attraction: Evaluative Mechanisms in Women, B. Ellis -- 7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel, M. Wilson and M. Daly -- PART IV: Parental Care and Children -- 8. Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens, M. Profet -- 9. Nurturance or Negligence: Maternal Psychology and Behavioral Preference among Preterm Twins, J. Mann -- 10. Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspective, A. Fernald -- 11. The Social Nature of Play Fighting and Play Chasing: Mechisms and Strategies Underlying Cooperation and Compromise, M.J. Boulton and P.K. Smith -- PART V: Perception and Language as Adaptations -- 12. Natural Language and Natural Selection, S. Pinker and P. Bloom -- 13. The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of the Terrestrial World? R.N. Shepherd -- 14. Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Evolutionary Theory and Data, I. Silverman and M. Eals -- PART VI: Environmental Aesthetics -- 15. Evolved Responses to Landscapes, G.H. Orians and J.H. Heerwagen -- 16. Environmental Preference in a Knowledge-Seeking, Knowledge Using Organism, S. Kaplan -- PART VII: Intrapsychic Processes -- 17. The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms, R. M. Nesse and A.T. Lloyd -- PART VIII: Understanding Evolutionarily New Cultural Forms -- 18. Beneath New Culture Is Old Psychology: Gossip, Class, and the Environment, J.H. Barkow |
| Analysis |
Humans Evolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Behavior evolution.
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Cognition and culture.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Genetic psychology.
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Sociobiology.
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| Author |
Barkow, Jerome H.
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Cosmides, Leda.
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Tooby, John.
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| LC no. |
91025307 |
| ISBN |
0195060237 |
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0195101073 (paperback) |
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