TY  - BOOK
T1  - The accidental mind
A1  - Linden, David J. 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312448377
AB  - "A guide to the strange and often illogal world of neural function, 'The accidendal mind' shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible : our long childhoods, our extensnsive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations. With forays into evolutionary biology, this analysis of mental function answers some of our most common questions about how we've come to be who we are." - book jacket.
OP  - 276
CN  - QP376 L577 2007
SN  - 0674024788 (cloth : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780674024786 (cloth : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780674029774 (pbk.)
SN  - 0674029771 (pbk.)
KW  - Brain : Popular works.
KW  - Brain : Evolution.
KW  - Neuropsychology.
ER  -