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Review: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human NatureUser Review - Tom - GoodreadsIf Evolutionary Psychologists were to argue that the sky is blue, Buller would surely argue that, contrary to appearances, the sky is actually plaid. This is presumably only a minor exaggeration ... Read full review Review: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human NatureUser Review - Nebuchadnezzar - GoodreadsEvolutionary psychology is a subject that invites so much controversy that even most academic types can't seem to keep their heads screwed on straight when it's brought up. Buller is not one of those ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesadaptive problems allele ancestors argument average behavior biological brain Buss Buss's children living cognitive cues cultural universals Daly and Wilson David Buss designed developmental domain domain-general emotional infidelity environment environmental evidence evolution Evolutionary Psy Evolutionary Psychologists Evolutionary Psychologists claim Evolutionary Psychology's theory evolutionary theory evolved extramarital fact filicide fitness benefit fitness costs frequency frequency-dependent selection function gametes genes genetic mother genetic parents genetic switch genotype Gould homogamy households human psychology hunter-gatherer hypothesis individuals involvement jealousy maltreatment marriage married mate preferences mating effort mind module natural kinds offspring organisms parental investment parental love paternity percent phenotypes phenotypic plasticity plasticity Pleistocene potential prediction produce psychological adaptations psychological mechanisms psychological universals reason relatedness relationship reproductive success response selection tasks sex difference sexual infidelity short-term infidelity simply social solve species status stepfamilies stepfather stepparents subjects tion tive Tooby and Cosmides traits variation Wason selection tasks women Popular passagesPage 521 - Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1991). A reply to Gelles: Stepchildren are disproportionately abused, and diverse forms of violence can share causal factors. References to this bookFrom other books
From Google ScholarModularity in Cognition: Framing the DebateH Clark Barrett, Robert Kurzban - 2006 - Psychological Review Evolutionary psychology: the emperor's new paradigmDavid J Buller - 2005 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences SpeciesMarc Ereshefsky - 2007 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Revisited: Do People Know What ...Paul W Eastwick, Eli J Finkel - 2008 - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology References from web pagesAdapting Minds - The MIT Press David J. Buller's Home Page Essay Review: Debunking Adapting Minds * Pith and Substance: <i>Adapting Minds</i>: Some Reactions Adapting minds : evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest ... Gene Expression: Adapting Minds, David Bulller & Evolutionary ... Adapting Minds and Evolutionary Psychology Herbert Gintis Matthew Yglesias (September 17, 2006) - <em>Adapting Minds</em ... Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest ... A change of mind? : Nature Bibliographic information |