Evolutionary Psychology: Theoretical Foundations Export

@article{citeulike:3372607, abstract = {Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the cognitive sciences whose goal is to map the evolved, species-typical cognitive and neural architecture of humans (and other species). Its focus is on integrating what is known about evolution into the research process, allowing evolutionary psychologists to derive hypotheses about the design of human information-processing mechanisms from the large pre-existing body of theories already developed and empirically tested within modern evolutionary biology.}, address = {London}, author = {Cosmides, Leda and Tooby, John}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science}, citeulike-article-id = {3372607}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/A0529.pdf}, keywords = {adaptation, cognitivescience, evolutionarybiology, evolutionarypsychology}, pages = {54--64}, posted-at = {2008-10-04 00:43:27}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Macmillan}, title = {Evolutionary Psychology: Theoretical Foundations}, url = {http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/A0529.pdf}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3372607 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3372607 N2 - Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the cognitive sciences whose goal is to map the evolved, species-typical cognitive and neural architecture of humans (and other species). Its focus is on integrating what is known about evolution into the research process, allowing evolutionary psychologists to derive hypotheses about the design of human information-processing mechanisms from the large pre-existing body of theories already developed and empirically tested within modern evolutionary biology. AD - London EP - 64 TI - Evolutionary Psychology: Theoretical Foundations PB - Macmillan T2 - Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science SP - 54 KW - adaptation KW - cognitivescience KW - evolutionarybiology KW - evolutionarypsychology AU - Cosmides, Leda AU - Tooby, John PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/A0529.pdf ER -