Human evolution occurred across vast amounts of time. We cannot directly observe what
happened during human evolutionary history. Yet evolutionary understandings of human�…

Not long after I impetuously agreed to write on the origin of mind, I realized that I was not
qualified. On the other hand, no one is qualified. The subject is the most polyglot in science�…

Over the last few years, a fledgling science called evolutionary psychology has provoked
renewed interest in how the human mind evolved. But current thinking about the issue is�…

Although reAders need not concern themselves with the particulars, death was very much
on my mind as I wrote Landscape of the Mind. More to the point, the bitter gulf that lies�…

The “problem of emotions,” that is, that many of them are both meaningful and corporeal, has
yet to be resolved. Western thinkers, from Augustine to Descartes to Zajonc, have handled�…

This book is about the deep interior of the Latin American psyche and about the powerful
emotional reactions elicited by the frequently constellated complexes of entire cultures that�…

One of the great challenges of the mind sciences is the clarification of the gifts of nature that
reside at the foundation of our mental apparatus. Clearly, the capacity to have primal�…

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a
psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason�…

Publisher Summary The culture eventually understands the foundations of human and
animal nature, and recognizes that one is the inheritor of the core emotional-affective�…

There is an interesting story being told these days by a multitude of biologists (Humberto
Maturana, JJ Gibson, Ulric Neisser, Richard Dawkins), linguists (Noam Chomsky, Steven�…