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Evolutionary Psychology
Nicholas Gessler (gessler@UCLA.EDU)
Sun, 5 May 1996 16:17:20 -0700
I would encourage anyone interested in "sociobiology" to consult a copy of
THE ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE GENERATION OF CULTURE,
edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. It has recently
(1995) been re-released in paperback by Oxford University Press. The lead
article "The Psychological Foundations of Culture" is well worth reading as
a critique of "the standard social sciences model" if you read nothing else.
I recently did a review of THE ADAPTED MIND along with POST-MODERNISM AND
ANTHROPOLOGY, ASSESSING CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, THE ORIGINS OF ORDER and AT
HOME IN THE UNIVERSE. It will shortly appear in the UCLA JOURNAL OF
ANTHROPOLOGY. Anyone looking for a grand synthesis should entertain the
prospect that *evolution* may underlay not just biology or cultural and
physical anthropology, but computation, physics and cosmology as well.
Cheers,
Nick Gessler
gessler@ucla.edu
Computational Evolution and Ecology Group
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