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(More customer reviews)This book contains some thoughtful reasons for believing that many evolutionary psychologists overestimate how much information about the human mind is encoded in genes. However, it is mixed in with some highly technical developmental neurobiology that only a few specialists are likely to find interesting.
For nonspecialists, David Buller's book Adapting Minds says similar things about innateness in a style that is more suited for laymen.
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Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to saythat a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in whichinteractions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors.These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselvesdirectly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.One of the keycontributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior canbe innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture,and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints atseveral of these levels.The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by anew kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models anddevelopmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study ofbehavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computationaltools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in whichthese tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology.
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