Tooby & Cosmides

Quotes from the work of John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, founders of the field of Evolutionary Psychology & co-directors of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.

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..humans and other animals into the same system of material causation that explains leaf shape and the osprey's eye."
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... It opened a path to the principled unification of the mental and physical worlds, the incorporation of the mental characteristics of...

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"Darwin's achievement went beyond the principled unification of the human & nonhuman living world within the framework of natural science...

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Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; "The Psychological Foundations of Culture"

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"to be endowed w/ broad behavioral plasticity unconnected to adaptive targets or environmental conditions is an evolutionary death sentence"

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...on natural tasks have had to abandon the idea that the mind is free of content-specialized machinery."
Tooby & Cosmides, 1992

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"Thus, researchers who ask hard questions about how organisms actually solve problems and who focus on the real performance of organisms...

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Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; "The Psychological Foundations of Culture"

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"In science, this is usually called explanation."
[In reference to how adaptationism sometimes uses an inductive approach.]

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Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; "The Psychological Foundations of Culture"

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"What is most ironic...is that perhaps the single most uncontroversial example of an adaptation...*is* a psychological adaptation: the eye."

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Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; "The Psychological Foundations of Culture" in The Adapted Mind

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"Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than fitness-maximizers."

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Cosmides, Tooby, & Barkow, 1992; Introduction to The Adapted Mind

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"[A universal human nature] exists primarily at the level of evolved psychological mechanisms, not of expressed cultural behaviors."

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Tooby and Cosmides on Evolutionary Psychology in 2010 [Video 10m]
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Evolutionary psychological perspectives on emotions. [Video]
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Origins of HBES interview with Tooby.
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Origins of HBES interview with Cosmides.
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2014 Edge Question: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
Tooby: Learning and culture.
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