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 .