LEADER 03225nam 2200589 a 450 001 9911067908903321 005 20260415140151.0 010 $a0-19-046360-0 010 $a0-19-934832-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000576754 035 $a(OCoLC)899008387 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10988136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001383601 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11762384 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001383601 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11320862 035 $a(PQKB)11771123 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3056405 035 $a(BIP)70306038 035 $a(BIP)49919315 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000576754 100 $a20150424d2014|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEvolution and Cognition Series : Shape of Thought : How Mental Adaptations Evolve 210 $cOxford University Press 215 $a1 online resource (406 p.) 225 0 $aEvolution and cognition series The shape of thought 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-19-934831-6 311 08$a1-322-31788-7 330 $aThe Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized adaptations, and yet also an organ of plasticity. Although mental adaptations have typically been seen as monolithic, hard-wired components frozen in the evolutionary past, The Shape of Thought presents a new view of mental adaptations as diverse and variable, with distinct functions and evolutionary histories that shape how they develop, what information they use, and what they do with that information. The book describes how advances in evolutionary developmental biology can be applied to the brain by focusing on the design of the developmental systems that build it. Crucially, developmental systems can be plastic, designed by the process of natural selection to build adaptive phenotypes using the rich information available in our social and physical environments. This approach bridges the long-standing divide between "nativist" approaches to development, based on innateness, and "empiricist" approaches, based on learning. It shows how a view of humans as a flexible, culturally-dependent species is compatible with a complexly specialized brain, and how the nature of our flexibility can be better understood by confronting the evolved design of the organ on which that flexibility depends. 606 $aPSYCHOLOGY$2bisac 606 $aCognitive Psychology & Cognition$2bisac 606 $aThought and thinking 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aPsychology$2HILCC 615 7$aPSYCHOLOGY 615 7$aCognitive Psychology & Cognition 615 0$aThought and thinking. 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aPsychology 676 $a153.4/2 676 $a153.42 700 $aBarrett$b H. Clark$01895911 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911067908903321 996 $aEvolution and Cognition Series : Shape of Thought : How Mental Adaptations Evolve$94550090 997 $aUNINA