Just notes…
by Monkey - January 15th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Personal notes for jogging my memory later:
If Pete Richerson is right, there’s been little genetic cognitive adaptation in the last several hundred thousand years of hominid evolution - just a few minor changes, a general increase in size and an evolution of context -> culture.
If that’s so, one of the main tasks of an evolutionary psychologist is identifying those few, crucial adaptations.
One is likely to be adapting some defense mechanism against bad info on the cultural grapevine (evil teachers (give long spiel here)). Is there evidence of it?
- Dodd & Bradshaw
- Bad info on the TC…