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The evolution of cognition / edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber.
In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a debate about how evolutionary processes have shaped cognition. The debate is divided into five sections: Orientations, on the phylogenetic, ecological, and psychological/comparative approaches to the evolution of cognition; Categorization, on how various animals parse their environments, how they represent objects and events and the relations among them; Causality, on whether and in what ways nonhuman animals represent cause and effect relationships; Consciousness, on whether it makes sense to talk about the evolution of consciousness and whether the phenomenon can be investigated empirically in nonhuman animals; and Culture, on the cognitive requirements for nongenetic transmission of information and the evolutionary consequences of such cultural exchange. Contributors : Bernard Balleine, Patrick Bateson, Michael J. Beran, M.E. Bitterman, Robert Boyd, Nicola Clayton, Juan Delius, Anthony Dickinson, Robin Dunbar, D.P. Griffiths, Bernd Heinrich, Cecilia Heyes, William A. Hillix, Ludwig Huber, Nicholas Humphrey, Masako Jitsumori, Louis Lefebvre, Nicholas Mackintosh, Euan M. Macphail, Peter Richerson, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Sara Shettleworth, Martina Siemann, Kim Sterelny, Michael Tomasello, Laura Weiser, Alexandra Wells, Carolyn Wilczynski, David Sloan Wilson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0585368902
- ISBN: 9780585368900
- ISBN: 9780262275330
- ISBN: 0262275333
- ISBN: 0262526964
- ISBN: 9780262526968
- ISBN: 0262082861
- ISBN: 9780262082860
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 386 pages) : illustrations.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
- Copyright: ©2000
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Evolutionary psychology in the round / Cecilia Heyes -- Psychophylogenesis: innovations and limitations in the evolution of cognition / Ludwig Huber -- Modularity and the evolution of cognition / Sara Shettleworth -- Cognitive evolution: a psychological perspective / M.E. Bitterman -- What must be known in order to understand imprinting? / Patrick Bateson -- Stimulus equivalencies through discrimination reversals / Juan D. Delius, Masako Jitsumori and Martina Siemann -- Abstraction and discrimination / Nicholas J. Mackintosh -- Primate worlds / Kim Sterelny -- Two hypotheses about primate cognition / Michael Tomasello -- Causal cognition and goal-directed action / Anthony Dickinson and Bernard W. Balleine -- Causal reasoning, mental rehearsal, and the evolution of primate cognition / Robin I.M. Dunbar -- Cause-effect reasoning in humans and animals / Duane M. Rumbaugh, Michael J. Beran and William A. Hillix -- The privatization of sensation / Nicholas Humphrey -- The search for a mental Rubicon / Euan M. Macphail -- Declarative and episodic-like memory in animals: personal musings of a scrub jay / Nicola S. Clayton, D.P. Griffiths and Anthony Dickinson -- Testing insight in ravens / Bernd Heinrich -- Feeding innovations and their cultural transmission in bird populations / Louis Lefebvre -- Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Goss. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to York University faculty, staff and students. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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