The Evolution of mind: fundamental questions and controversies

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Gangestad, Simpson, An Introduction to The Evolution of Mind: Why We Wanted This Book. Part I: Methodological Issues: The Means of Darwinian Behavioral Science. Issue I: How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed. Thornhill, Comprehensive Knowledge of Human Evolutionary History Requires Both Adaptationism and Phylogenetics. Hagen, Symons, Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness and the Structure of Cognition. Andrews, Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mind is Depressingly Difficult. Smith, Reconstructing the Evolution of the Human Mind. Mithen, How the Evolution of the Human Mind Might Be Reconstructed. Issue II: The Role of Tracking Current Evolution. Crawford, Reproductive Success: Then and Now. Mulder, On the Utility, Not the Necessity, of Tracking Current Fitness. Reeve, Sherman, Why Measuring Reproductive Success in Current Populations is Valuable: Moving Forward by Going Backward. Issue III: Our Closest Ancestors. Stanford, What Nonhuman Primates Can and Can't Teach Us about the Evolution of Mind. Silk, Who Lived in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness? Lancaster, Kaplan, Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life History, Diet, and the Mind. Issue IV: The Role of Examining the Costs and Benefits of Behaviors. Kaplan, Gangestad, Optimality Approaches and Evolutionary Psychology: A Call for Synthesis. DeScioli, Kurzban, The Games People Play.Kenrick, Sundie, Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology and Mathematical Modeling: Quantifying the Implications of Qualitative Biase. Part II: Fundamental MetaTheoretical Issues. Issue V: The Modularity of Mind. Ermer, Cosmides, Tooby, Functional Specialization and the Adaptationist Program. Barrett, Modules in the Flesh. Issue VI: Development as the Target of Evolution. Honeycutt, Lickliter, The Developmental Dynamics of Adaptation. Sterelny, An Alternative Evolutionary Psychology? Barrett, Development as the Target of Evolution: A Computational Approach to Developmental Systems. Lieberman, Evolutionary Psychology and Developmental Systems Theory. Thornhill, The Importance of Developmental Biology to Evolutionary Biology and Vice Versa. Issue VII: The Role of Group Selection. Wilson, The Role of Group Selection in Human Psychological Evolution. Boyd, Richerson, Group Selection: A Tale of Two Controversies. Kurzban, Aktipis, On Detecting the Footprints of Multilevel Selection in Humans. Part III: Debates Concerning Important Human Evolutionary Outcomes. Issue VIII: Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology. Barrett, Cosmides, Tooby, The Hominid Entry into the Cognitive Niche. Flinn, Alexander, Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution. Mithen, Key Changes in the Evolution of Human Psychology. Issue IX: Brain Evolution. Kaplan, Gurven, Lancaster, Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An Ecological and Social Theory. Dunbar, Evolution of the Social Brain. Miller, Brain Evolution. Finlay, E Pluribus Unum: Too Many Unique Human Capacities and Too Many Theories. Issue X: General Intellectual Ability. Geary, The Motivation to Control and the Evolution of General Intelligence. Kanazawa, The g-culture Coevolution. Mithen, General Intellectual Ability. Issue XI: Culture and Evolution. Boyd, Richerson, Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation: Of Kayaks and Commissars. Boyer, The Envelope of Human Cultures and the Promise of Integrated Behavioral Sciences. Flinn, Coe, The Linked Red Queens of Human Cognition, Coalitions, and Culture. Hill, Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Adaptations, and Human Culture. Kurzban, Representational Epidemiology: Skepticism and Gullibility. Schaller, Turning Garbage into Gold: Evolutionary Universals and Cross-Cultural Differences. Issue XII: The Evolution of Mating between the Sexes. Buss, The Evolution of Human Mating Strategies: Consequences for Conflict and Cooperation. Wood, Eagly, Social Structural Origins of Sex Differences in Human Mating. Thornhill, The Evolution of Women's Estrus, Extended Sexuality, and Concealed Ovulation, and Their Implications for Human Sexuality Research. Gangestad, Simpson, Whither Science of the Evolution of Mind?