Here are two recent references to work surveying evolutionary psychology
which came up in discussion last week.
mike
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Buss, David M.
Evolutionary psychology : the new science of the mind / David M. Buss.
Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1
Boyer, Pascal.
Evolutionary psychology and cultural transmission. Sage Publications Inc,
US.
American Behavioral Scientist, 2000 Mar, v43 (n6):987-1000.
Abstract: Evaluates how evolutionary psychology can contribute to the
description and explanation of cultural material as a continuation of 3
research frameworks (meme dynamics, cognitive conduits of culture, and
cognitive predispositions) that connect genetic inheritance and cultural
evolution. Evolutionary psychology provides a proximate explanation of
cultural transmission in that it is based on a description of the
cognitive mechanisms involved in acquisition of cultural representations.
To illustrate this point, the author uses the example of religious.
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