Evolution & the Mind
Evolutionary perspectives on mental life, emotion, development, and behavior.
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Your Mind, Your Genes, and the Parts You Don’t See
When you think about yourself, your own history offers the most immediate material. Your thoughts, feelings, motives, and peculiarities feel personal and private, shaped by what you have experienced and…
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Tree Rings of Feeling: Understanding the Layers of Your Emotions
An emotion can be ancient and at the same time unmistakably yours. You inherit the capacity to fear, seek, rage, attach, care, play, and desire. You also inherit sensitivities and…
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Evolutionary Psychology of Faith: A Survival Feature or a Mind Bug?
If religion were a person, how are things between you two? Are you even on speaking terms? Are you just awkwardly tolerating each other at family gatherings, giving a polite…