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On Our Minds : How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate /

"In On Our Minds, Eric M. Gander examines all sides of the public debate between evolutionary psychologists and their critics. Paying particularly close attention to the popular science writings of Steven Pinker, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Stephen Jay Gould, Gander traces the histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gander, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."