Evolution and Cognition Series – serie
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In Gods We Trust
The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
Av Scott Atran
Häftad, 2005
803 kr
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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, …
Natural Selection and Social Theory
Selected Papers of Robert Trivers
Av Trivers
Häftad, 2002
1041 kr
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Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring …
Adaptive Thinking
Rationality in the Real World
Häftad, 2002
1137 kr
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Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social. Gerd Gigerenzer proposes …
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Häftad, 2005
1151 kr
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Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could …
Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition
Av Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1226 kr
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This is the second of a three volume series on innateness--one of the central topics currently debated in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. The series grows out of interdisciplinary "working groups" at Rutgers University. The first volume focused on the fundamental architecture of the human …
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
Av Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich
Häftad, 2007
1233 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their …
Rationality for Mortals
How People Cope with Uncertainty
Inbunden, 2008
1940 kr
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Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational …
Simple Heuristics in a Social World
Av HERTWIG, Ralph Hertwig m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2719 kr
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Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, …
The Shape of Thought
How Mental Adaptations Evolve
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for …
The Shape of Thought
How Mental Adaptations Evolve
Häftad, 2015
816 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an …
Simply Rational
Decision Making in the Real World
Inbunden, 2015
1885 kr
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Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making across the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Collectively, the essays demonstrate why the …
Rationality for Mortals
How People Cope with Uncertainty
Häftad, 2010
616 kr
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Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of human behavior and interaction with the environment. Seen from this perspective, human behavior is more rational …
