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...
"Darwin's achievement went beyond the principled unification of the human & nonhuman living world within the framework of natural science...
"to be endowed w/ broad behavioral plasticity unconnected to adaptive targets or environmental conditions is an evolutionary death sentence"
...on natural tasks have had to abandon the idea that the mind is free of content-specialized machinery."
Tooby & Cosmides, 1992
"Thus, researchers who ask hard questions about how organisms actually solve problems and who focus on the real performance of organisms...
"In science, this is usually called explanation."
[In reference to how adaptationism sometimes uses an inductive approach.]
"What is most ironic...is that perhaps the single most uncontroversial example of an adaptation...*is* a psychological adaptation: the eye."
"[A universal human nature] exists primarily at the level of evolved psychological mechanisms, not of expressed cultural behaviors."
Tooby and Cosmides on Evolutionary Psychology in 2010 [Video 10m]
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Evolutionary psychological perspectives on emotions. [Video]
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2014 Edge Question: "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
Tooby: Learning and culture.
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