THE ADAPTED MIND and the Generation of Culture

Edited by Jerome H. Barkow

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

II. COOPERATION

3. Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

4. Two Nonhuman Primate Models for the 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 and viii CONTENTS

IV. PARENTAL CARE AND CHILDREN

8. Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens 327

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 451 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