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Leda Cosmides is a foundational figure in evolutionary psychology, having co-authored the seminal text 'The Adapted Mind' {fact:1, fact:4} and established the field's core research framework [1]. Her specific research on cheater detection is widely recognized as a flagship example of the discipline [2].
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Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 3 facts
claimAnthropologist John Tooby and psychologist Leda Cosmides define evolutionary psychology as a scientific attempt to assemble a single, logically integrated research framework for the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences by incorporating evolutionary sciences and revising existing research practices.
referenceLeda Cosmides and John Tooby authored the chapter 'Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange' in the book 'The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture', published by Oxford University Press in 1992.
claimLeda Cosmides and John Tooby's 1992 book, The Adapted Mind, helped usher in the modern era of evolutionary psychology.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 3 facts
claimEvolutionary psychologists, as described by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides in 1990, do not claim that human behavior or culture is uniform globally, but rather that the genes required for cognitive adaptations and the cognitive adaptations themselves are universal, even if resulting behaviors vary.
claimCosmides and Tooby’s research on cheater detection is considered a flagship example of Evolutionary Psychology.
quoteTooby and Cosmides (1990a) state that evolutionary psychologists are not committed to "a form of ‘genetic determinism,’ if by that one means the idea that genes determine everything, immune from an environmental influence."