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Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Author : Mark Schaller
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1136950494
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind written by Mark Schaller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted rigorous scholarly inquiry. Evolutionary psychology documents many ways in which genetic adaptations govern the operations of the human mind. But evolutionary inquiries only occasionally grapple seriously with questions about human culture and cross-cultural differences. By contrast, cultural psychology documents many ways in which thought and behavior are shaped by different cultural experiences. But cultural inquires rarely consider evolutionary processes. Even after decades of intensive research, these two perspectives on human psychology have remained largely divorced from each other. But that is now changing - and that is what this book is about. Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary, cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters reveal many novel insights linking human evolution to both human cognition and human culture – including the evolutionary origins of cross-cultural differences. The result is a stimulating introduction to an emerging integrative perspective on human nature.

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Author : Mark Schaller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780805859126
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind written by Mark Schaller and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture

Author : Gary Hatfield
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536490
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture written by Gary Hatfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture.

Origins of the Modern Mind

Author : Merlin Donald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674253701
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Modern Mind written by Merlin Donald and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

Genes, Mind, and Culture

Author : Charles J Lumsden
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981448069X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Genes, Mind, and Culture written by Charles J Lumsden and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline during the ensuing quarter century. They argue compellingly that human nature is neither arbitrary nor predetermined, and identify mechanisms that energize the upward translation from genes to culture. The authors also assess the properties of genetic evolution of mind within emergent cultural patterns. Lumsden and Wilson explore the rich and sophisticated data of developmental psychology and cognitive science in a fashion that, for the first time, aligns these disciplines with human sociobiology. The authors also draw on population genetics, cultural anthropology, and mathematical physics to set human sociobiology on a predictive base, and so trace the main steps that lead from the genes through human consciousness to culture. Contents:The Next Synthesis: 25 Years of Genes, Mind, and CultureThe Primary Epigenetic RulesThe Secondary Epigenetic RulesGene-Culture TranslationThe Gene-Culture Adaptive LandscapeThe Coevolutionary CircuitThe Biogeography of the MindGene-Culture Coevolution and Social Theory Readership: For the biological and social scientists, as well as applied mathematicians, philosophers, and historians of science, the book will indeed interest and be accessible to researchers, academics and lecturers. Keywords:Genes;Genome;Mind;Culture;Sociobiology;Meme;Consilience;Holism;Consciousness;Development;Epigenesis;Epigenetic;Emergence;Social Physics;Evolution;Darwin;Nonlinear Dynamics;Complexity;ChaosKey Features:Presents a richly multidisciplinary subject matter that appeal to academic readers in the biological, social, and mathematical sciences, as well as in philosophy and the history of scienceEach chapter is organized in a way that non-mathematical readers can assess the key arguments and results while reserving the mathematical sections for future studyExtensive use of diagrams and graphics supplement each chapter's text and mathematical developmentsA Glossary section makes the book's technical vocabulary instantly accessible at any point in the text

Darwin's Unfinished Symphony

Author : Kevin N. Laland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118447X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Unfinished Symphony written by Kevin N. Laland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind—and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture—evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all others—it is also the key driving force behind that process. Kevin Laland tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin’s intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.

A Mind So Rare

Author : Merlin Donald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393323191
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book A Mind So Rare written by Merlin Donald and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald (psychology, Queen's University, Canada) challenges the prevailing view that seeks to explain away human consciousness and presents a theory on the origins of the modern mind. He describes the cultural and neuronal forces that power human modes of awareness, and proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of the interweaving of the brain with an invisible symbolic web of culture to form a "distributed" cognitive network. Using evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, he explains how an expansion of consciousness transcends the limitations of the mammalian mind, and elaborates the foundations of self-evaluation and self-reflection. c. Book News Inc.

The Adapted Mind

Author : Jerome H. Barkow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195356472
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book The Adapted Mind written by Jerome H. Barkow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-19 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the human mind, and with it a new framework for the behavioral and social sciences. First, with the advent of the cognitive revolution, human nature can finally be defined precisely as the set of universal, species-typical information-processing programs that operate beneath the surface of expressed cultural variability. Second, this collection of cognitive programs evolved in the Pleistocene to solve the adaptive problems regularly faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors--problems such as mate selection, language acquisition, cooperation, and sexual infidelity. Consequently, the traditional view of the mind as a general-purpose computer, tabula rasa, or passive recipient of culture is being replaced by the view that the mind resembles an intricate network of functionally specialized computers, each of which imposes contentful structure on human mental organization and culture. The Adapted Mind explores this new approach--evolutionary psychology--and its implications for a new view of culture.

Culture and Cognition

Author : Bradley Franks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 023034383X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Cognition written by Bradley Franks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange. But minds also depend on culture for their contents and processes. Past resolutions to this circularity problem have tended to give too much weight to one side and too little weight to the other. In this groundbreaking and timely work, Bradley Franks demonstrates how a more plausible resolution to the circularity problem emerges from reframing mind and culture and their relations in evolutionary terms. He proposes an alternative evolutionary approach that draws on views of mind as embodied and situated. By grounding social construction in evolution, evolution of mind is intrinsically connected to culture – resolving the circularity problem. In developing his theory, Franks provides a balanced critical assessment of modularity-based and social constructionist approaches to understanding mind and culture.

The Evolution of Mind

Author : Steven W. Gangestad
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462527493
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Mind written by Steven W. Gangestad and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, an explosion of research has generated many compelling insights--as well as hotly debated controversies--about the evolutionary bases of human nature. This important volume brings together leading proponents of different theoretical and methodological perspectives to provide a balanced look at 12 key questions at the core of the field today. In 43 concise, accessible chapters, followed by an integrative conclusion, the contributors present viewpoints informed by human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene-culture coevolutionary approaches. Topics include the strengths and limitations of different methodologies; metatheoretical issues; and debates concerning the evolution of the human brain, intellectual abilities, culture, and sexual behavior.

The Evolution of the Human Mind

Author : Norman Leslie Munn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the Human Mind written by Norman Leslie Munn and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Debated Mind

Author : Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Debated Mind written by Harvey Whitehouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that cultural transmission is constrained by our genetic inheritance. Few social and cultural anthropologists have found this argument to be relevant to their work and many would doubt its validity. This book uniquely pitches the arguments for innatism against ethnographic perspectives that call into question the theoretical foundations of orthodox evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Ultimately the aim of the debate is to create an original set of mutually compatible theories that will open up new areas for interdisciplinary research.

Brain, Culture & the Human Spirit

Author : James B. Ashbrook
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819188540
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Brain, Culture & the Human Spirit written by James B. Ashbrook and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains essays on brain, culture, and the human spirit that are basic to understanding the relation between religion and science. Each represent separate realms of inquiry, coming from physiology, anthropology, psychology, theology. Each author develops his own perspective as to the place of homo sapiens in the cosmos we know as earth. Together, however, they represent an emerging consensus. Contents: Introduction, James B. Ashbrook; On the Evolution of Three Mentalities, Paul D. MacLean; The Myth-Ritual Complex: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis, Eugene G. d'Aquili; Body, Brain, and Culture, Victor Turner; Psychology's Mentalist Paradigm and Religion/Science Tension, Roger W. Sperry; Brain Science and the Human Spirit, Colwyn Trevarthen; The Human Brain and Human Destiny: A Pattern for Old Brain Empathy with Emergence of Mind, James B. Ashbrook.

Origins of Mind

Author : Liz Swan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400754191
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Origins of Mind written by Liz Swan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdiscipline of biosemiotics has so far by and large focused on codes, signs and sign processes in the microworld—a fact that reflects the field’s strong representation in microbiology and embryology. What philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists can contribute to the growing interdiscipline are insights into how the biosemiotic weltanschauung applies to complex organisms like humans where such signs and sign processes constitute human society and culture.

Evolution and Human Culture

Author : Gregory F. Tague
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004319484
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Human Culture written by Gregory F. Tague and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution and Human Culture surveys disciplines of evolutionary studies to posit that hominin evolved moral sentiments have been integral to the development of artistic culture.

Evolution, Culture, and Consciousness

Author : Thomas Edward McNamara
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761827658
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Culture, and Consciousness written by Thomas Edward McNamara and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas McNamara, in Evolution, Culture, and Consciousness, presents the first comprehensive theory of human perception and consciousness based on the generally accepted principles of evolutionary psychology. This theory, building on the best evolutionary research, explains that just a few simple neurological changes in the primate brain account for human speech, self-consciousness and the creation of meaning out of experience. All primates can learn, but our species evolved a new instinct for learning, which makes childhood learning just as powerful as the other biological instincts found in all other primates. McNamara shows that children are genetically programmed to learn not just what to think, but how to think, shaping the preconscious process for creating meaning out of experience. However, because our environment has changed radically since our origin, this archaic form of consciousness has become a major block to human development and success. After explaining how we have all been programmed to preconsciously create meaning out of experience, McNamara shows how we can create a new and more successful way of thinking and feeling, resulting in a happier, more productive, stress free life.

Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind

Author : Mark Pagel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393063151
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind written by Mark Pagel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.