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Preface |
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Contents |
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List of Contributors |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Our Origins: How and Why We Do and Do Not Differ from Primates |
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1.1 Introduction |
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1.2 Why Humans Do Not Differ from Primates |
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1.3 How Humans Do Not Differ from Primates |
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1.4 How Humans Do Differ from Primates |
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1.5 Why Humans Do Differ from Primates |
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References |
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Chapter 2 Our Children: Parental Decisions — How Much to Invest in Your Offspring |
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2.1 Introduction to Parental Investment Theory |
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2.2 Life History Theory and Tradeoffs |
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2.2.1 Current vs. Future Reproduction |
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2.2.2 Quantity vs. Quality |
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2.3 Who Invests: Mothers, Fathers, Grandmothers, and Others |
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2.3.1 Mothers and Fathers |
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2.3.2 Grandmothers and Others |
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2.3.3 Are Humans Cooperative Breeders? |
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2.4 Parent–Offspring and Sibling Conflicts |
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2.4.1 Infanticide and Neglect |
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2.4.2 Differential Investment and Inheritance |
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2.5 Sons vs. Daughters: Sex Biases in Parental Investment |
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2.5.1 The Trivers–Willard Effect |
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2.5.2 Local Resource Competition and Enhancement |
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2.5.3 Marriage Payments as Sex-Biased Parental Investment |
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2.6 Conclusions |
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References |
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Chapter 3 Our Social Roots: How Local Ecology Shapes Our Social Structures |
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3.1 Adaptation and Maladaptation |
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3.2 Testing Hypotheses About Adaptation in Human Cultural Behavior Through Cross-Cultural Comparison |
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3.2.1 Ecological Correlates of Human Social Behavior |
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3.2.2 How Social Behavior is Adapted to Subsistence Strategies |
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3.2.3 Cultural Phylogenetics |
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3.2.4 Transmission of Traits from Mother to Daughter Cultures |
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3.3 Conclusions |
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References |
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Chapter 4 Our Selections and Decisions: Inherent Features of the Nervous System? |
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4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Some Thoughts About Selection–Decision Architectures |
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4.3 Switching/Decision/Negotiation Modules |
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4.3.1 Features of Conflict Negotiation Modules |
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4.3.2 Evidence for Conflict-Negotiating Modules |
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4.4 Representation of Decision-Related Intervening Variables |
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4.4.1 BOLD Responses in Humans |
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4.4.2 Single Cell Responses in Animals |
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4.5 Summary and Some Implications |
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4.5.1 Distributed Networks and Complex Interactions |
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4.5.2 Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Descriptions |
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References |
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Chapter 5 Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds |
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5.1 Introduction |
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5.2 Representing Supernatural Minds |
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5.2.1 The Mindreading System and Attributed Domains |
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5.2.2 Supernatural Minds, Variation, and Counterintuitiveness |
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5.3 Variation in Domains of Supernatural Agents’ Knowledge and Concern |
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5.3.1 Omniscience with Heightened Concern: Prosocial Behavior |
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5.3.2 Imperfect Access with Acute Concern: Ritual Behavior |
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5.3.3 Emphases on Faith, Practice, and Social Complexity |
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5.4 Conclusion |
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References |
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Chapter 6 Our Preferences: WhyWe Like What We Like |
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6.1 Darwin’s Problem |
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6.2 Evolutionary Constraints on Aesthetic Perception:The Body as an Evolved Form |
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6.3 The Eight Pillars of Beauty |
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6.4 Alternative Views: Neuroaesthetics |
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6.5 Alternative Views: The Evolutionary Psychology of Ugliness |
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6.6 The Future of the Adapted Mind |
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References |
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Chapter 7 Our Appetite for Information: Invented Environment, Non-Transparent Mind, and Evolved Preferences |
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7.1 Introduction |
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7.2 Old Cognition, New Playgrounds, and the Technological Fallacy |
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7.3 We Don’t Know that We Don’t Know How We Perceive Media |
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7.4 Still the Same Old Cues |
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7.5 Reality and Media: The Boundary that Never Was |
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7.6 The Old Stories Are the Best |
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7.7 Conclusion |
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References |
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Chapter 8 Our Best Shot at Truth: Why Humans Evolved Mathematical Abilities |
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8.1 Introduction |
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8.2 The Mathematical Abilities of Modern Humans |
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8.2.1 Number Sense |
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8.2.2 Number Processing |
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8.2.3 Mathematical Thinking in Terms of Relations |
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8.3 Evolutionary Origins of the Mathematical Abilities of Modern Humans |
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8.3.1 Evolutionary Origins of Number Sense |
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8.3.2 Evolutionary Origins of Number Processing |
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8.3.3 Evolutionary Origins of Mathematical Thinking in Terms of Relations |
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8.4 Discussion: The Mathematical Nature of Modern Humans |
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References |
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Chapter 9 Our Way to Understand the World: Darwin’s Controversial Inheritance |
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9.1 Knowing Instead of Believing: Why the Theory of Evolutionand Traditional Forms of Belief Are Irreconcilable |
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9.2 Errors and Misunderstandings: The Theory of Evolution and the Ghost of Biologism |
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9.3 Huxley’s Synthesis: How Evolutionary Humanism Comes into Darwin’s Inheritance |
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References |
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Index |
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