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The Shape of Thought - How Mental Adaptations Evolve (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,708
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The Shape of Thought - How Mental Adaptations Evolve (Hardcover): H Clark Barrett

The Shape of Thought - How Mental Adaptations Evolve (Hardcover)

H Clark Barrett

Series: Evolution and Cognition Series

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The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and yet also an organ of plasticity. Although mental adaptations have typically been seen as monolithic, hard-wired components frozen in the evolutionary past, The Shape of Thought presents a new view of mental adaptations as diverse and variable, with distinct functions and evolutionary histories that shape how they develop, what information they use, and what they do with that information. The book describes how advances in evolutionary developmental biology can be applied to the brain by focusing on the design of the developmental systems that build it. Crucially, developmental systems can be plastic, designed by the process of natural selection to build adaptive phenotypes using the rich information available in our social and physical environments. This approach bridges the long-standing divide between "nativist" approaches to development, based on innateness, and "empiricist" approaches, based on learning. It shows how a view of humans as a flexible, culturally-dependent species is compatible with a complexly specialized brain, and how the nature of our flexibility can be better understood by confronting the evolved design of the organ on which that flexibility depends.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Evolution and Cognition Series
Release date: February 2015
Authors: H Clark Barrett (Professor)
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-934830-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-19-934830-8
Barcode: 9780199348305

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