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Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

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But that’s what we’re doing much of the time—coming up with externally plausible explanations for why we do what we do that don’t necessarily have much to do with why we really do what we do. They’ve shown you can explain an awful lot—an astonishing amount—just by looking at the dynamics of group punishment—but I don’t think they believe that’s the end of the story. Previously head of the Psychology Department at Bath Spa University, he received an undergraduate degree in psychology and biology (BA Joint Hons) from Keele University and his doctorate (DPhil) in animal behaviour from the University of Sussex. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to studying human behavior that is rooted in modern evolutionary theory. Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of.

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? He argues that human beings have deeply entrenched moral intuitions which guide their assessment of reality.Understanding the cognitive adaptations outlined in this book brings the whole world into a new light. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. This is a concise and student-friendly survey of the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology (EP) and the controversies that surround it.

So it’s only going to take one minute before we kill you, and there’s only a one-in-five chance that one of us will get killed.Then there are some slightly more fanciful findings from hypnotism and so on, and he pulls them together. When you put it in computer terms, people accept all these other things that we can add on to that analogy.

If you and I are throwing rocks at each other, and let’s say it takes on average five minutes of rock-throwing for one of us to kill the other, it’s still 50/50. For example, looking at mating strategies, they might interview 1,000 men and show them pairs of pictures and say: ‘which of these images do you prefer?Yet, if you’re doing the same thing about me, it’s probably quite useful for me to be having a bit of my brain that’s working out what you’re inferring about me from my actions. We’ve also had Suzana Herculano-Houzel on our site, who pointed to cooking as the key turning point in human evolutionary history. A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease. By shining the light of Darwin’s big idea on human actions and thought, the authors show how genetic and cultural evolution might work together to predispose our central human traits, our moral inclinations, and even our uniqueness.

If you give a chimp a rock to throw, he’s going to miss the target most of the time, he’s terrible at it. And when we started being able to speak—there are changes in the bones of the throat, which they can time quite well. For example, Herb Gintis has suggested that Bingham and Souza underplay the importance of child-rearing, the role of culture and the invention of fire in their analysis.But I think it was Daly and Wilson who first actually collected the data, and proved that this was so.

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