EVOLUTION OF MIND

New neurological evidence provides a key to understanding the mind's evolution as a gradual accretion of specialized functions. In the Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology utilize these new ideas about biological functions to illuminate puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, this interdisciplinary work offers a wide variety of perspectives on topics ranging from mental algorithms to numerical reasoning capacities and from communicative abilities to comparisons between the cognitive abilities of human infants and those of non-human primates. As an interdisciplinary effort, 'The Evolution of Mind' will appeal to a broad range of researchers and students and help set the agenda for the future development of the field.