Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
Table 28.1 Thirty recent examples of empirical discoveries about humans generated by thinking about adap- tation and selection E ...
mechanism as a species-wide feature. Co-opted adaptations invoke selection in the original construction of the mechanism that is ...
Symons, 1979; Tooby & Cosmides, 1990b; Williams, 1966). Exaptations, in con- trast, exist in the present because they were c ...
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Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (1990). Toward an evolutionary history of female sociosexual variation.Journal of Persona ...
Rancour-Laferriere, D. (1985).Signs of the flesh: An essay on the evolution of hominid sexuality.New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Ri ...
Wiederman, M. W., & Allgeier, E. R. (1993). Gender differences in sexual jealousy: Adaptationist or social learning explanat ...
Chapter 29 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain John Tooby and Leda Cosmides Nothing in biology ...
Cognitive neuroscience began with the recognition that the brain is an organ designed to process information and that studying i ...
1992). The human mind (it will turn out) i scompo sed of many different pro- gram sfor the same rea son that a carpenter’ stoolb ...
so that they cause the otherwise improbable outcome of constructing offspring machines, most random modifications interfere with ...
own frequency in the population. Accordingly, design features that promote both direct reproduction and kin reproduction, and th ...
This has several important implications for cognitive neuroscientists: 1.Technical definition of function. In explaining or expl ...
is far more likely to discover it by using an adaptationist framework for orga- nizing observations because adaptive organizatio ...
hence, in neuroscience and cognitive science, which study biological systems. The evolutionary proce s snever start swith a clea ...
human psychological architecture that has been functionally organized by nat- ural selection, and the neural structures and proc ...
environment sencountered by ance stral population sduring the cour se of a species’ or population’s evolution (table 29. 1). Ada ...
(Tooby and Cosmides, 1990b, 1992). For example, the lens, pupil, iris, retina, visual cortex, and other parts of the eye are too ...
neered are adaptations? Some researchers have argued that evolution primarily produces inept designs, because selection does not ...
the evolved solution to these problems is usually machinery that is well engi- neered for the task; (3) this machinery is usuall ...
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