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Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Hardcover – March 15, 1998

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We aren't very strong, nor very fast, we have insufficient body hair to keep us warm and dry, and we will never eat bananas with our feet. But like our chimpanzee cousins, we, the naked apes, have evolved to flourish in our surroundings--a cultural environment largely of our own creation. For the human race, the critical evolution of the past million years has been the evolution of our minds.

Yet psychology, the very science that purports to understand us, has long been deeply ambivalent about Darwin's unsettling discoveries. In an accessible, level-headed overview, Henry Plotkin describes the new rapprochement called 'evolutionary psychology.' He examines how such a powerful theory as Darwinism could have been disregarded by much academic psychology and shows why the relationship between the two must be readdressed. The theory and data of evolutionary biology and animal behavior can illuminate many of our most basic mental processes and activities: language learning, perception, social understanding, and most controversially, culture and the sharing of knowledge and beliefs.

Ranging from the nature-nurture question, which has bedeviled philosophers and scientists for thousands of years, to recent debates about the mind's structure, Evolution in Mind vividly demonstrates how an evolutionary perspective helps us understand what we are, and how we got that way.

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"Henry Plotkin's Evolution in Mind is the sensible face of evolutionary psychology. While sanguine about the promise of evolutionary psychology, he avoids much of the eulogizing tone that characterizes other introductory tests. His account is strong on the history of psychology, on tracing the emergence of evolutionary psychology, and his examples of the current work of evolutionary psychologists is largely limited to ones that have a strong and prolonged set of results to support them." (Terence Sullivan Metapsychology 2001-01-12)

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Henry Plotkin is Professor of Psychobiology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University College in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; 1st edition (March 15, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674271203
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674271203
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Alan Coman

incomprehensible and disorganized

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The author is very unfocused and uses long winding sentences that make reading a near impossibility. After reading a paragraph, stop and try to think what the author wanted to say. The jargon is also abused, unclear and abundant.

Nothing will be left after reading the book, except the idea that you can glance from the cover: you need evolution to understand the mind, psychology and many observable behaviors in the animal realm.

Please do yourself a favor and read Dawkins, Dennett or Diamond.

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A poor exposition of evolutionary psychology.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 1998

Evolutionary psychology has thus far been lucky to have exponents who are both comfortable and competent with current evolutionary theory (Daly & Wilson, Tooby & Cosmides, Buss, and Barkow). It was only a question of time until everyone started jumping on the bandwagon. Plotkin belongs to the 'yes, but' school of evolution. Yes, humans are the product of evolutionary forces, yes we are biological organisms and must obey biological principles but we are also super-wonderful, extra- special organisms. We have unique magical powers like intelligence, awareness and culture that other animals do not posses. This not only glorifies the abilities of humans but completely trivializes the wonder and magnificence of the rest of the kingdom Animalia. Plotkin has a very impressive command of the history of both biology and psychology. But that's about it. His attacks on sociobiology are both tired and pedestrian, revealing shallow insight. Then, he goes on to launch feeble assaults upon some of the most impressive empirical work of current evolutionary psychologists (Buss, Daly & Wilson) for the same trite reasons. Lastly, he tries to find a 'middle way'. This 'middle way' consists of fancifully picking and choosing from the findings of modern biology in a flimsy attempt to maintain a position for humans at the pinnacle of some mythical evolutionary ladder. Plotkin has betrayed evolutionary psychology with the title of his work and is bound to mislead the public about what evolutionary psychology really is. Evolutionary psychologists believe that Darwinian principles can and should be applied to the study of the human mind, an agenda Plotkin only halfheartedly endorses. Even the bibliography is tragically wanting. Readers are referred to Barkow, Tooby & Cosmides masterly work, The Adapted Mind, anything else by them, or by Buss or Daly & Wilson.

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