Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture
- 3 Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity
- 4 Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders
- 5 Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting-case
- 6 Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind
- 7 Evolution, communication and the proper function of language
- 8 The evolution of knowledge
- 9 Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective
- 10 The evolution of strategic thinking
- 11 On the origin of the human mind
- 12 The evolution of consciousness
- 13 Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Massively modular minds: evolutionary psychology and cognitive architecture
- 3 Individual differences in early understanding of mind: genes, non-shared environment and modularity
- 4 Darwin in the madhouse: evolutionary psychology and the classification of mental disorders
- 5 Evolution of the modern mind and the origins of culture: religious concepts as a limiting-case
- 6 Symmetry and the evolution of the modular linguistic mind
- 7 Evolution, communication and the proper function of language
- 8 The evolution of knowledge
- 9 Mind, brain and material culture: an archaeological perspective
- 10 The evolution of strategic thinking
- 11 On the origin of the human mind
- 12 The evolution of consciousness
- 13 Evolution, consciousness and the internality of the mind
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Evolution and the Human MindModularity, Language and Meta-Cognition, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000