On our minds : how evolutionary psychology is reshaping the nature-versus-nurture debate / Eric M. Gander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gander, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]

Summary:

There is no question more fundamental to human existence than that posed by the nature-versus-nurture debate. For much of the past century, it was widely believed that there was no essential human nature and that people could be educated or socialized to thrive in almost any imaginable culture. Today, that orthodoxy is being directly and forcefully challenged by a new science of the mind: evolutionary psychology. Like the theory of evolution itself, the implications of evolutionary psychology are provocative and unsettling. In"

Contents:

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"

Brave new world revisited

again

Writing on The blank slate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index.

ISBN:

0801873878

OCLC:

50866910