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Title The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture / edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 666 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Psychological foundations of culture / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior / Donald Symons -- Cognitive adaptations for social exchange / Leda Cosmides and John Tooby -- Two nonhuman primate models for the evolution of human food sharing : chimpanzees and callitrichids / W.C. McGrew and Anna T.C. Feistner -- Mate preference mechanisms : consequences for partner choice and intrasexual competition / David M. Buss -- Evolution of sexual attraction : evaluative mechanisms in women / Bruce J. Ellis -- Man who mistook his wife for a chattel / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly -- Pregnancy sickness as adaptation : a deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens / Margie Profet -- Nurturance or negligence : maternal psychology and behavioral preference among preterm twins / Janet Mann -- Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective / Anne Fernald -- Social nature of play fighting and play chasing : mechanisms and strategies underlying cooperation and compromise / Michael J. Boulton and Peter K. Smith -- Natural language and natural selection / Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom -- Perceptual organization of colors : an adaptation to regularities of the terrestrial world? / Roger N. Shepard -- Sex differences in spatial abilities : evolutionary theory and data / Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals -- Evolved responses to landscapes / Gordon H. Orians and Judith H. Heerwagen -- Environmental preference in a knowledge-seeking, knowledge-using organism / Stephen Kaplan -- Evolution of psychodynamic mechanisms / Randolph M. Nesse and Alan T. Lloyd -- Beneath new culture is old psychology : gossip and social stratification / Jerome H. Barkow.
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Subject Genetic psychology.
Genetic psychology.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition and culture.
Behavior evolution.
Behavior evolution.
Sociobiology.
Sociobiology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Barkow, Jerome H.
Cosmides, Leda.
Tooby, John.
Other Form: Print version: Adapted mind. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, ©1992 9780195101072 (OCoLC)33832963
ISBN 9780195356472 (electronic book)
0195356470 (electronic book)