An Introduction to The Evolution of Mind: Why We Developed This
Book, Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson
I. Methodological Issues: The Means of Darwinian Behavioral
Science
Issue 1: How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be
Reconstructed
1. Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires
Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics, Randy Thornhill
2. Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
and the Structure of Cognition, Edward H. Hagen and Donald
Symons
3. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mind is Depressingly
Difficult, Paul W. Andrews
4. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Human Mind, Eric Alden
Smith
5. How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed,
Steven Mithen
Issue 2: The Role of Tracking Current Evolution
6. Reproductive Success: Then and Now, Charles B. Crawford
7. On the Utility, Not the Necessity, of Tracking Current Fitness,
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
8. Why Measuring Reproductive Success in Current Populations is
Valuable: Moving Forward by Going Backward, H. Kern Reeve and Paul
W. Sherman
Issue 3: Our Closest Ancestors
9. What Nonhuman Primates Can and Can't Teach Us about the
Evolution of Mind, Craig B. Stanford
10. Who Lived in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness?, Joan
B. Silk
11. Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life History, Diet, and the
Mind, Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan
Issue 4: The Role of Examining the Costs and Benefits of
Behaviors
12. Optimality Approaches and Evolutionary Psychology: A Call for
Synthesis, Hillard S. Kaplan and Steven W. Gangestad
13. The Games People Play, Peter DeScioli and Robert Kurzban
14. Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology and Mathematical Modeling:
Quantifying the Implications of Qualitative Biases, Douglas T.
Kenrick and Jill M. Sundie
II. Fundamental MetaTheoretical Issues
Issue 5. The Modularity of Mind
15. Functional Specialization and the Adaptationist Program, Elsa
Ermer, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby
16. Modules in the Flesh, H. Clark Barrett
Issue 6. Development as the Target of Evolution17. The
Developmental Dynamics of Adaptation, Hunter Honeycutt and Robert
Lickliter
18. An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology?, Kim Sterelny
19. Development as the Target of Evolution: A Computational
Approach to Developmental Systems, H. Clark Barrett
20. Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Systems Theory, Debra
Lieberman
21. The Importance of Developmental Biology to Evolutionary Biology
and Vice Versa, Randy Thornhill
Issue 7. The Role of Group Selection
22. The Role of Group Selection in Human Psychological Evolution,
David Sloan Wilson
23. Group Selection: A Tale of Two Controversies, Robert Boyd and
Peter J. Richerson
24. On Detecting the Footprints of Multilevel Selection in Humans,
Robert Kurzban and C. Athena Aktipis
III. Debates Concerning Important Human Evolutionary
Outcomes
Issue 8. Key Changes in the Evolution of Human
Psychology
25. The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche, H. Clark Barrett,
Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby
26. Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution, Mark Flinn and
Richard Alexander
27. Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology, Steven
Mithen
Issue 9. Brain Evolution
28. Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An Ecological
and Social Theory, Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven, and Jane B.
Lancaster
29. Evolution of the Social Brain, Robin Dunbar
30. Brain Evolution, Geoffrey Miller
31. E Pluribus Unum: Too Many Unique Human Capacities and Too Many
Theories, Barbara L. Finlay
Issue 10. General Intellectual Ability
32. The Motivation to Control and the Evolution of General
Intelligence, David C. Geary
33. The g-culture Coevolution, Satoshi Kanazawa
34. General Intellectual Ability, Steven Mithen
Issue 11. Culture and Evolution
35. Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation: Of Kayaks and
Commissars, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson 36. The Envelope of
Human Cultures and the Promise of Integrated Behavioral Sciences,
Pascal Boyer
37. The Linked Red Queens of Human Cognition, Coalitions, and
Culture, Mark Flinn and Kathryn Coe
38. Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Adaptations, and Human Culture,
Kim Hill
39. Representational Epidemiology: Skepticism and Gullibility,
Robert Kurzban
40. Turning Garbage into Gold: Evolutionary Universals and
Cross-Cultural Differences, Mark Schaller
Issue 12. The Evolution of Mating between the Sexes
41. The Evolution of Human Mating Strategies: Consequences for
Conflict and Cooperation, David M. Buss
42. Social Structural Origins of Sex Differences in Human Mating,
Wendy Wood and Alice H. Eagly
43. The Evolution of Women's Estrus, Extended Sexuality, and
Concealed Ovulation, and Their Implications for Human Sexuality
Research, Randy Thornhill
Whither Science of the Evolution of Mind?, Steven W. Gangestad and
Jeffry A. Simpson
Steven W. Gangestad, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of
Psychology at the University of New Mexico. His research has
covered a variety of topics in evolutionary behavioral science,
including the determinants of sexual attraction, changes in women's
sexual psychology across the ovarian cycle, the effects of genetic
compatibility between mates on relationship qualities, individual
variation in developmental precision and its manifestations in
neuropsychology, and influences of men's testosterone levels.
Jeffry A. Simpson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of
the Doctoral Minor in Interpersonal Relationships at the University
of Minnesota. His research interests include adult attachment
processes, human mating, idealization in relationships, empathic
accuracy in relationships, and dyadic social influence. Dr. Simpson
is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the
Association for Psychological Science. He serves as Associate
Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology:
Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes.
'Don't be fooled by the deceptive simplicity of Darwin's elegant theory, or the polarized debates about evolutionary social science. Instead, get it right by reading this magnificent volume of concise page-turners on the evolution of the human mind. Gangestad and Simpson set out to nudge the progress of this vibrant new science by squarely addressing its internal controversies in the words of the experts themselves. The book is a huge success-forget nudging, the field leaps forward! A 'must read' for anyone who really wants to understand the profound ways evolution has shaped human behavior. This book is a true intellectual adventure.' - "Martie G. Haselton, PhD, Department of Communication Studies and Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA" 'Evolution of Mind demonstrates that a disciplinary realignment, underway for more than three decades, is now virtually complete. We have moved away from traditional disciplinary identities and, in the words of the editors, toward an integrative human evolutionary behavioral science. This innovative volume captures this exciting moment with short, insightful essays from dozens of leading scholars from throughout the social, behavioral, and life sciences...Scholars will find this book essential to their efforts to keep abreast of current trends in this new field, and the range and brevity of its chapters make it a perfect source of stimulating readings for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses.'- "Lee Cronk, PhD, Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA"
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