The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0195101073 ISBN13: 9780195101072 Release Date: October 1995 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 688 Pages Weight: 2.05 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2" Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the human mind, and with it a new framework for the behavioral and social sciences. First, with the advent of the cognitive revolution, human nature can finally be defined precisely as the set of universal, species-typical information-processing programs that operate beneath the surface of expressed cultural variability. Sec