Foundations in evolutionary cognitive neuroscience /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7643070
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Other authors / contributors:Platek, Steven M.
Shackelford, Todd K. (Todd Kennedy), 1971-
ISBN:9780521884211
0521884217
9780521711180 (pbk.)
0521711185 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors
  • 1. Introduction to evolutionary psychology: A Darwinian approach to human behavior and cognition
  • 2. The evolution of general fluid intelligence
  • 3. The role of a general cognitive factor in the evolution of human intelligence
  • 4. Where there is an adaptation, there is a domain: The form-function fit in information processing
  • 5. Invention and Community in the emergence of language: Insights from new sign languages
  • 6. Origins of the language: Correlation between brain evolution and language development
  • 7. The evolutionary cognitive neuropsychology of face preferences
  • 8. Sex differences in the neural correlates of jealousy
  • Index