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Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology

Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology

Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Paperback - 2000

by Plotkin, Henry

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  • Title Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
  • Author Plotkin, Henry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Publication date May 5, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0674001958.G
  • ISBN 9780674001954 / 0674001958
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.87 x 5.69 x 0.84 in (22.53 x 14.45 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97074915
  • Dewey Decimal Code 152
  • Quantity available 1

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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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