The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It shows how the brain can be both a complexly specialized organ and a dynamic and flexible self-organizing system, shaped by learning and culture.
The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It shows how the brain can be both a complexly specialized organ and a dynamic and flexible self-organizing system, shaped by learning and culture.
H. Clark Barrett is an evolutionary anthropologist who studies the evolution of cognition. For the past fifteen years he has conducted field work in the Amazon region of Ecuador, and uses experimental cognitive tasks across cultures to test hypotheses about the evolution of the mind. He is now Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The problem Part 1. Evolution 1 - Additivism 2 - Hill-climbing Part 2. Information 3 - Adding value 4 - Social ontology 5 - Minds Part 3. Development 6 - Development 7 - Open ends Part 4. Culture 8 - Moving targets 9 - Culture 10 - Accumulation Part 5. Architecture 11 - Parts 12 - Wholes 13 - Us Conclusion: Possibilities References Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The problem Part 1. Evolution 1 - Additivism 2 - Hill-climbing Part 2. Information 3 - Adding value 4 - Social ontology 5 - Minds Part 3. Development 6 - Development 7 - Open ends Part 4. Culture 8 - Moving targets 9 - Culture 10 - Accumulation Part 5. Architecture 11 - Parts 12 - Wholes 13 - Us Conclusion: Possibilities References Index
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