The Adapted Mind is an edited volume of original, commissioned papers centered on the complex, evolved psychological mechanisms that generate human behaviour and culture. It has two goals: the first is to introduce the newly crystallizing field of evolutionary psychology to a wider scientific audience. The second goal of this volume is to clarify how this new field, by focusing on the evolved information-processing mechanisms that comprise the human mind, supplies the necessary connection between evolutionary biology and social and cultural behaviour.
Readership: Researchers in evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology.
Edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Professor of Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Leda Cosmides, Department of Psychology, and John Tooby, Department of Anthropology, both at the University of California, Santa Barbara
"'This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate.' The Economist, January, 1992"
"'This book is a rare exception, a volume of fresh and original research of momentous significance that is written in such a way that ordinary mortals can immediately join the debate.' The Economist"
"'... a massive tome that throws considerable light on a number of issues ... The Adapted Mind is a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture. It brings together many well-written and scholarly chapters that do much to articulate the salient issues and give state of the art overviews.' Paul Gilbert, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 66"
"'one cannot afford to ignore it' Glenn D. Wilson, Person.individ. Diff. Vol. 15, No. 5, 1993"
"a collection of eighteen papers by twenty-five authors which sum up and illustrate much of the best of our knowledge in the field of evolutionary psychology" - Christopher Badcock, London School of Economics, ESS Newsletter No. 36, October 1994
