Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition
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Overview
How did our minds evolve? Can evolutionary considerations illuminate the question of the basic architecture of the human mind? These are two of the main questions addressed in Evolution and the Human Mind by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists and archaeologists. The volume will be of great interest to all researchers and students interested in the evolution and nature of the mind.
Synopsis
This volume of essays offers an interdisciplinary examination of the evolution of the human mind.
Booknews
Philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists explore how evolutionary considerations can illuminate the basic architecture of the human mind. They focus especially on issues to do with the modularity of the mind, the evolution and significance of natural language, and the evolution of the capacity to think about thinking. Among the topics are evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders, the evolution of strategic thinking, and symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)