In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a debate about how evolutionary processes have shaped cognition.
The debate is divided into five sections: Orientations, on the phylogenetic, ecological, and psychological/comparative approaches to the evolution of cognition; Categorization, on how various animals parse their environments, how they represent objects and events and the relations among them; Causality, on whether and in what ways nonhuman animals represent cause and effect relationships; Consciousness, on whether it makes sense to talk about the evolution of consciousness and whether the phenomenon can be investigated empirically in nonhuman animals; and Culture, on the cognitive requirements for nongenetic transmission of information and the evolutionary consequences of such cultural exchange.
I ORIENTATIONS
1 Evolutionary Psychology in the Round
Cecilia Heyes
2 Psychophylogenesis: Innovations and Limitations in the Evolution of Cognition
Ludwig Huber
3 Modularity and the Evolution of Cognition
Sara Shettleworth
4 Cognitive Evolution: A Psychological Perspective
M.E. Bitterman
II CATEGORIZATION
5 What Must Be Known in Order to Understand Imprinting?
Patrick Bateson
6 Stimulus Equivalencies Through Discrimination Reversals
Juan D. Delius, Masako Jitsumori, and Martina Siemann
7 Abstraction and Discrimination
Nicholas J. Mackintosh
8 Primate Worlds
Kim Sterelny
III CAUSALITY
9 Two Hypotheses About Primate Cognition
Michael Tomasello
10 Causal Cognition and Goal-Directed Action
Anthony Dickinson and Bernard W. Balleine
11 Causal Reasoning, Mental Rehearsal, and the Evolution of Primate Cognition
Robin I.M. Dunbar
12 Cause-Effect Reasoning in Humans and Animals
Duane M. Rumbaugh, Michael J. Beran, and William A. Hillix
IV CONSCIOUSNESS
13 The Privatization of Sensation
Nicholas Humphrey
14 The Search for a Mental Rubicon
Euan M. Macphail
15 Declarative and Episodic-like Memory in Animals: Personal Musings of a Scrub Jay
Nicola S. Clayton, D.P. Griffiths, and Anthony Dickinson
16 Testing Insight in Ravens
Bernd Heinrich
V CULTURE
17 Feeding Innovations and Their Cultural Transmission in Bird Populations
Louis Lefebvre
18 Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition
Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
19 Gossip and Other Aspects of Language as Group-Level Adaptations
David Sloan Wilson, Carolyn Wilczynski, Alexandra Wells, and Laura Weiser
Cecilia Heyes is Reader in Psychology at University College London and Research Associate at the ESRC. Ludwig Huber is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna.
