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The Evolution of Mind by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colin Allen is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Evolution of Mind about?

Our understanding of the human mind has radically changed in recent years--from the unified mind once envisioned by Ren Descartes over three hundred years ago to a new understanding of mind as a set of specialized cognitive components gradually accumulated in our evolutionary past. As a result, many scientists and philosophers now believe that our minds emerged out of the same type of evolutionary processes that have shaped our bodies. In The Evolution of Mind , outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the minds evolution--from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities. This interdisciplinary work presents a comparative and evolutionary perspective on a wide variety of topics, including mental algorithms for reasoning about contingencies, quantities, social norms, and the minds of others; socia

Author

Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colin Allen

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195110531

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences