Adapting Minds

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Adapting Minds

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Author : David J. Buller
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2006-02-17

Adapting Minds written by David J. Buller and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-17 with Psychology categories.

Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.

Adapting Minds

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Author : David J. Buller
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2006-02-17

Adapting Minds written by David J. Buller and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-17 with Psychology categories.

Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.

Oxford Metaphysics And Ethics Adapted To A Natural System Text Followed Being T H Green S Prolegomena To Ethics By The Author Of Scottish Metaphysics Reconstructed

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Author : E. Edmond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

Oxford Metaphysics And Ethics Adapted To A Natural System Text Followed Being T H Green S Prolegomena To Ethics By The Author Of Scottish Metaphysics Reconstructed written by E. Edmond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.

Nature Study And The Child

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Author : Charles B. Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

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Psychology Book Introduction

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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, Bodies Under Siege, Body Language (book), Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences, Brainstorms, Children of Crisis, Coincidance: A Head Test, Consciousness Evolving, Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again, Delivered from Distraction, Emotional Design, Everything in Its Place, Foundations of Cyclopean Perception, Handbook for the Positive Revolution, Handbook of Educational Psychology, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded edition), How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom, How the Mind Works, How the Self Controls Its Brain, Identity Formation, Agency, and Culture, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development, Intelligence in Nature, In a Different Voice, Liberation by Oppression, Love and Hate (book), Love and Will, Man and His Symbols, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), My Secret Garden, Obsession (book), On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Overcoming Autism, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Powers of Horror, Quantum Psychology, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Shrink Yourself, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, So Human an Animal, Straight and Crooked Thinking, Studies on Hysteria, The Act of Creation, The Behavior of Organisms, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, The Complexity of Cooperation, The Conscious Mind, The Cry for Myth, The Disowned Self, The Emotion Machine, The Feeling Good Handbook, The Great Mother, The Human Animal (book), The Insanity of Normality: Understanding Human Destructiveness, The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method, The Meaning of Anxiety, The Myth of Mental Illness, The Myth of the First Three Years, The Noonday...

Science

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Author : John Michels (Journalist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

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The Comprehensive English Dictionary The Pronunciation Adapted To The Best Modern Usage By R Cull

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Author : John Ogilvie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

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A Treatise On The Diseases Of The Nervous System

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Author : James Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

A Treatise On The Diseases Of The Nervous System written by James Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Nervous system categories.

First large modern textbook in English on the subject; it lead to Dr. Ross ̓election as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. (DNB).

A Treatise On The Diseases Of The Nervous System V 2

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Author : James Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

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The Presbyterian Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

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