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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.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication dateMarch 15, 1998
- Dimensions6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100674271203
- ISBN-13978-0674271203
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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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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.



