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

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