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Cosmides Evolutionary Psychology The Psychological Foundations Of Culture ToobyWritten by Tooby & Cosmides
Read by R. Danielle Olivaw
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Length: 8 hrs
The Psychological Foundations of Culture is a groundbreaking work that challenges the dominant paradigm in the social sciences and offers a new framework for understanding human psychology, culture, and social behavior. It is based on the premise that human minds are the product of evolution and that they are composed of specialized and content-rich information-processing mechanisms that generate and transmit cultural phenomena. The work draws on empirical and theoretical findings from various disciplines, such as genetics, neuroscience, ethology, behavioral ecology, hunter-gatherer studies, primatology, and linguistics, to demonstrate the validity and utility of the Integrated Causal Model (ICM), which integrates evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and anthropology.