The Evolution of Cognition

摘要: In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses behavior nonhuman as well animals full range evolutionary approaches. Rather than collection for like-minded, it is debate about processes have shaped cognition. The divided into five sections: Orientations, phylogenetic, ecological, psychological/comparative approaches cognition; Categorization, various parse their environments, they represent objects events relations among them; Causality, whether in what ways cause effect relationships; Consciousness, makes sense talk consciousness phenomenon can be investigated empirically animals; Culture, cognitive requirements nongenetic transmission information consequences such cultural exchange. ContributorsBernard 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, Mackintosh, Euan Macphail, Peter Richerson, Duane Rumbaugh, Sara Shettleworth, Martina Siemann, Kim Sterelny, Tomasello, Laura Weiser, Alexandra Wells, Carolyn Wilczynski, David Sloan Wilson