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On our minds : how evolutionary psychology is reshaping the nature-versus-nurture debate

Summary: "In On Our Minds, Eric M. Gander examines all sides of the public debate between evolutionary psychologists and their critics. Paying particularly close attention to the popular science writings of Steven Pinker, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Stephen Jay Gould, Gander traces the history of the controversy, succinctly summarizes the claims and theories of the evolutionary psychologists, dissects the various arguments deployed by each side, and considers in detail the far-reaching ramifications - social, cultural, and political - of this debate. Gander's lucid and highly readable account concludes that evolutionary psychology now holds the potential to answer our oldest and most profound moral and philosophical questions, fundamentally changing our self-perception as a species."--Jacket

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ISBN: 9780801873874
ISBN: 0801873878
ISBN: 9780801881381
ISBN: 0801881382
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Stephen Jay Gould historicizes science -- Richard Herrnstein stirs up controversy at Harvard yard -- Edward O. Wilson brings more controversy to the yard -- Richard Lewontin and his colleagues demur -- Nature's "very special way" -- What is the mind? -- The challenges of reverse engineering -- The benefits of hardwiring -- What cultures can the mind run? -- The evolutionary psychology of "Little house on the prairie."
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.