Review: The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve by H. Clark Barrett

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

American Journal of Human Biology

Volume

28

Issue

1

First page number:

149

Last page number:

150

Abstract

In this book's preface, Clark Barrett proclaims, “When done properly, evolutionary psychology is just evolutionary biology applied to the mind” (p. 12). And yet, he continues, “The picture of brain evolution I've attempted to paint here is, I think, quite different from widely held caricatures of modularity and evolutionary psychological views of the mind more generally. I'm [advocating] ‘a designed emergence view’” (p. 315).

Language

English

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