The Human Nature Review edited by Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young
An award-winning multidisciplinary site. Our goal is to bring into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might. We make welcome writings and discussions on anthropology, archaeology, artificial intelligence, behaviour genetics, cognitive science, developmental psychology, ...
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Beauty Worlds:
All about beauty in nature and cultures past and present with many original articles ranging from Aztecs to hairstyles in culture through to orchids. Topics covered include fashion, hairstyles, body image, cosmetic surgery, anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder, celebrity culture and much more.
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Human Nature Review - Table of Contents - Editors Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young
Our goal is to bring into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might. We make welcome writings and discussions on anthropology, archaeology, artificial intelligence, behaviour genetics, cognitive science, developmental psychology, economics, ethology, evolutionary biology, ...
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Signs of Consciousness contains a set of related essays that attempts to understand this
Signs of Consciousness contains a set of related essays that attempts to understand this evolution in terms of preexisting and emerging psychological processes and draws on some basic cognitive psychology to understand the capacities underlying the creation of signs. The evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. This section contains mainly links to articles and sites ...
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Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer Leda Cosmides & John Tooby Introduction The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. It is not an area of study, like ...
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Research Group
Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition Contents Publications People Courses Conferences Lecture Series Research Projects Professor Stephen Stich, Director Center for Cognitive Science Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Tel. (732) 932-9091 Fax: (732) 445-6715 Recent publications The Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition was established to investigate the mechanisms ...
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Emotions and Disease Home Page
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William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina (MIT Press, 2000)
A machine for language Surely not, say the people who associate machines with stolid reliability - language, after all, is the basis for metaphor, up there near the heights of creativity. Machines aren't creative (and if they try, we get them repaired). Surely yes, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their ...
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Online NewsHour: A Discussion with Matt Ridley, Author of 'Genome' -- February 29, 2000
GENOME: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY February 29, 2000 Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez talks with author Matt Ridley about his new book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, about the opportunites and moral challenges the Human Genome Initiative presents to society. Mr. Ridley will also answer your questions in an online forum. Online Health Special: Gene Therapy Participate in an online ...
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Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned by Robert Kurzban
In 'Alas Poor Darwin' (hereafter APD), Steven and Hilary Rose and the other contributors to this edited volume accuse evolutionary psychologists of sins both scientific and political, in prose filled with self-righteous rage, smug dismissals, and unremitting invective. Evolutionary psychologists, they say, are wedded to genetic determinism, a view simplistic in conception, fatalistic in outlook, ...
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Ecological Psychology
Ecological Psychology or the ecological relation of knower to known, sits within planetary ecology as well as psychology, or evolutionary psychology. In many respects, ecological psychology, which forms a bridge between the ordinary study of physics, biology, and psychology, is rightfully considered the most fundamental of disciplines since it addresses issues of ontology, and epistemology, the ...
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Dr. Leda Cosmides, UCSB, Evolutionary Psychology Dr. John Tooby, UCSB, Anthropology Dept., Has
Schedule Has Natural Selection Shaped How Humans Reason Dr. Leda Cosmides, UCSB, Evolutionary Psychology Dr. John Tooby, UCSB, Anthropology Dept. The study of the human mind has recently been moved into the natural sciences through biology, computer science, and allied disciplines, and the result has been the revelation of a wholly new and surprising picture of human nature. Instead of the ...
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Evolutionary cybernetics
Evolutionary cybernetics studies the origin and development of purposeful organization in Nature, Mind, Society and Technology ...
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So you think you're logical
So you think you're logical This is an online version of one of the most oft repeated experiments in the world of experimental psychology. It'll only take a few minutes to complete. Just click on the link below. Click here to play the game! Credits: TPM Designed and programmed by Jeremy Stangroom Based on original work by Peter Wason, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby TPM Online is The Philosophers' ...
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Evolutionary psychology: An emerging integrative perspective within the science and practice of
Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is an emerging integrative approach to the study of Human Nature, founded upon evolutionary biological theory and cognitive science. This article evaluates the theoretical foundations and implications of EP from a Scientist-Practitioner perspective. EP is contrasted with its antecedent, human sociobiology, and theoretical differences are discussed. Cosmides & Toob ...
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Psychological Anthropology
An Introduction to Psychological Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Human Mind ...
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The Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation by Ian Pitchford
Violence has been attributed to many causes including mental illness, brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. This article provides a brief overview of some recent work on sociopathy and psychopathy and argues that models of violence, and explanations of violent acts such as rape and homicide, need to accommodate the possibility that a large proportion of such acts are committed by ...
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Edge: SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE MIND
Home About Edge Features Edge Editions Press The Reality Club Third Culture Digerati Edge Search SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE MIND A Talk with Goeffrey Miller GEOFFREY MILLER: My goal at this point really is to take evolutionary psychology the next step, and to apply standard of evolutionary theory as much as possible to explain the whole gamut of the human mind, human emotions, human social life, ...
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Larry Trask reviews The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
Since the pioneering work of Joseph Greenberg in the 1960s, linguists have realized that the grammars of languages do not normally consist of arbitrary collections of properties, but that instead they tend strongly to fall into more-or-less well-defined constellations of properties. In spite of a great deal of investigation, the reasons for these consistent - though far from exceptionless - ...
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The Paula Gordon Show
The Paula Gordon Show Sources of Power Jared Diamond . . . is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer. Dr. Diamond is also a medical researcher and professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His book, Guns, Germs and Steel won a Pulitzer Prize and The Third Chimpanzee was a best-selling award winner. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the ...
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Evolutionary Psychology: An Elegant Solution
Evolutionary Psychology is a relatively new approach that treats the human mind as a product of evolution. According to EP, the human mind consists of mental modules that, like the body's organs, evolved to handle specific adaptive problems.
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Richard Wrangham on The Paula Gordon Show
The Paula Gordon Show Demons Among Us Richard Wrangham . . . is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book _Demonic Males_ popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior. He has studied chimpanzees in Gombe (with Jane Goodall) and Kibale, vervet monkeys and gelada baboons. With a ...
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The Paula Gordon Show Natural Goodness Internationally recognized primate scientist Frans de Waal believes we re experiencing a second, more sophisticated Darwinian Revolution, which will vastly expand our understanding of basic human psychology and human nature. Professor de Waal has studied other Great Apes for almost twenty-five years and agrees with Charles Darwin -- aggression is only one ...
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William Calvin on The Paula Gordon Show
The Paula Gordon Show Civilization Use It or Lose It William Calvin . . . is a theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who also trained in physics. Most of his nine books are written for general readers, including How Brains Think, in the widely-translated Science Masters series. The Throwing Madonna, The Cerebral Symphony, and The Ascent of Mind are about ...
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Dawkins vs. Gould' by Kim Sterelny reviewed by Herbert Gintis
Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould are prominent evolutionary biologists. Both are great writers and both are extremely contentious. Moreover, they disagree in public forums with a startling level of invective. Kim Sterelny is a philosopher with a solid background in evolutionary theory, and in this book tells the tale of their disagreements with skill and journalistic polish.
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Evolutionary Psychology
EVOLUTION DIALOGUE Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences J. Raymond Zimmer* 3347 W. 66th Place Chicago, IL 60629 Evolutionary psychology is a new multidisciplinary field which promises to irrevocably change the traditional social sciences. This article introduces evolutionary psychology, explains how it challenges current social science, then discusses the opportunities ...
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Looking at chimpanzees ....
Looking at chimpanzees is like going back in time and catching a glimpse of our ancestry. Info on chimpanzees and research on the Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony (the Netherlands) ...
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh on The Paula Gordon Show
The Paula Gordon Show A Talk on the Wild Side Sue Savage-Rumbaugh & Nyota . . . is an Professor of Biology at Georgia State University, and a leading ape-language researcher. Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh is author with Roger Lewin of Kanzi, The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Nyota was born in the Spring of 1998. He is just over a year old in this picture. 3:21 ...
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The Paula Gordon Show The Dance of Consciousness Walter J. Freeman . . . is a professor of Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley. He received an M.D. from Yale University. He completed postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959, the year he joined the Berkeley faculty. He is an acknowledged pioneer of brain research whose ...
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Darwinian Evolution and Human History
In the late 1970s and early 1980s I was very involved in trying to make both scholarly and libertarian Marxist ideas available to a wider public than the academic one in which I had been trained and in which I worked until 1975. I was at that time deeply involved in the 'Crucible: Science in Society' television series. I also did several things for the Open University, including this radio talk.
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Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour
Evolutionary Explanations of Behaviour - Quiz 1. What % of human genes do all humans have in common 99.9% 99% 9.9% 2. Evolutionary psychologists are interested in the ................. ............. of human behaviour: common sense common denominator common architecture 3. Evolutionary psychologists use the phrase eat dung and die because: they like dung flies are adapted to eat dung, whereas ...
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Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology This paper addresses a fundamental limitation in most attempts to apply the findings of evolutionary psychology to the human condition. Most attempts focus on how our biological past constrains and limits our behavioural options (including our cognitive abilities). They generally fail to look at whether these constraints can be overcome in our future evolution. To date, ...
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The Paula Gordon Show Psychology is NOT Science Margaret Hagen Margaret Hagen has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota. She studies visual perception, searching to understand the relationship between what we have in our heads and what goes on in the world, including the relationship between size, distance, shape, slant, color. She currently teaches at Boston ...
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The Paula Gordon Show Ending Racism In America The 'problem' in America is not 'race, ' according to Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson. We've made enormous strides on 'race' in the past 30 years, even though there's more to do. The problem in America is poverty. And that's a national disgrace. Patterson is an historical sociologist and Professor at Harvard University. After a lifetime ...
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The Paula Gordon Show Born Rebels Human childrens archrivals in childhood are our siblings. We compete for the scarce resources of parental love, attention and instruction. That rivalry has directly impacted individual human childrens ability to survive childhood over hundred of thousands of years. Those who survived to reproduce did so by adopting strategies which shape our personalities.
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Front Page WORLD News Sport Business Entertainment Science/Nature Technology Talking Point In Depth ------------- Learning English Programmes Schedules & Frequencies Site Map REGIONS Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Middle East South Asia SERVICES About Us Contact Us Help Text Only Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs You are in: Front Page Science and Technology Thursday, 1st June, 2000 ...
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The Great Debate: Home Page
The Great Debate is an umbrella title for a series of courses, day schools, public discussions and workshops on topics including Darwinism, human nature, the human mind, and consciousness. The Great Debate website includes listings of events, articles and reviews and useful links to other sites.
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Will Wilkinson / Tools / Research / Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology FAQ by Edward Hagen Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby A Guided Tour of Evolutionary Psychology by David Buller Evolutionary Psychology: Annotated Bibliography, by David Buller Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UCSB Cogweb: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Evolutionary Psychology DMOZ: Evolutionary Psychology ...
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