THE ADAPTED MIND Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Edited by Jerome H. Barkow Leda Cosmides John Tooby
New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contributors
Introduction: Evolutionary Psychology and Conceptual Integration Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, and jerome H. Barkow
I. THE EVOLUTIONARY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. The Psychological Foundations of Culture )ohn Tooby and Leda Cosmides
2. On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human Behavior Donald Symons
II. COOPERATION
3. Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
4. Two Nonhuman Primate Models for the Evolution of Human Food Sharing: Chimpanzees and Callitrichids W. C. McCrew and Anna T. C. Feistner
III. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATING AND SEX
5. Mate Preference Mechanisms: Consequences for Partner Choice and Intrasexual Competition David M. Buss
6. The Evolution of Sexual Attraction: Evaluative Mechanisms in Women Bruce). Ellis
7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel Margo Wilson and Martin Daly viii CONTENTS
IV. PARENTAL CARE AND CHILDREN
8. Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens 327 Margie Profet
9. Nurturance or Negligence: Maternal Psychology and Behavioral Preference Among Preterm Twins 367 Janet Mann
10. Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspective 391 • Anne Fernald
11. The Social Nature of Play Fighting and Play Chasing: Mechanisms and Strategies Underlying Cooperation and Compromise 429 Michael J. Boulton and Peter K. Smith
V. PERCEPTION AND LANGUAGE AS ADAPTATIONS
12. Natural Language and Natural Selection 451 Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom
13. The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of the Terrestrial World? 495 Roger N. Shepard 14. Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Evolutionary Theory and Data 533 Irwin Silverman and Marion Eals
VI. ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS
15. Evolved Responses to Landscapes 555 Cordon H. Orians and Judith H. Heerwagen
16. Environmental Preference in a Knowledge-Seeking, Knowledge-Using Organism 581 Stephen Kaplan
VII. INTRAPSYCHIC PROCESSES
17. The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms 601 Randolph M. Nesse and Alan T. Lloyd CONTENTS ix
VIII. NEW THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO CULTURAL PHENOMENA
18. Beneath New Culture Is Old Psychology: Gossip and Social Stratification 627 Jerome H. Barkow
Author Index 639 Subject Index 657