Leda Cosmides and John Tooby argued that natural selection did not endow the human mind with a general conditional reasoning capacity because testing abstract logical rules would not have had adaptive value in the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA).

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  Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• human mind concept
• natural selection concept
• Leda Cosmides entity
• John Tooby entity
• environment of evolutionary adaptedness concept