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Title:
The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture
Author:
Barkow, Jerome H.
ISBN:
9780195101072
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995, c1992.
Physical Description:
xii, 666 s. : res. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The psychological foundations of culture / On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior / Cognitive adaptations for social exchange / Two nonhuman primate models for the evolution of human food sharing : chimpanzees and callitrichids / Mate preference mechanisms : consequences for partner choice and intrasexual competition / The evolution of sexual attraction : evaluative mechanisms in women / The man who mistook his wife for a chattel / Pregnancy sickness as adaptation : a deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens / Nurturance or negligence : maternal psychology and behavioral preference among preterm twins / Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective / The social nature of play fighting and play chasing : mechanisms and strategies underlying cooperation and compromise / Natural language and natural selection / The perceptual organization of colors : an adaptation to regularities of the terrestrial world? / Sex differences in spatial abilities : evolutionary theory and data / Evolved responses to landscapes / Environmental preference in a knowledge-seeking, knowledge-using organism / The evolution of psychodynamic mechanisms / Beneath new culture is old psychology : gossip and social stratification
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Book 7.2/12/428263 BF711 .A33 1995
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