000			01527 a2200205 4500
003			OSt
020			_a9780190940942
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a612.8233 _bC777e
100			_aCoolidge, Frederick L.
245			_aEvolutionary neuropsychology _ban introduction to the evolution of the structures and functions of the human brain _cFrederick L. Coolidge
260			_bOxford University Press _c2020 _aNew York
300			_axi, 275p
520			_aThis book is designed to introduce the evolutionary origins of the human brain’s present structures and functions. Evolutionary neuropsychology is a new multidisciplinary science that embraces and uses empirical findings from the fields of evolution, neuroscience, cognitive sciences, psychology, anthropology, and archaeology. This book is designed for the intellectually curious, but styled especially for academics at any level and psychologists focusing on various aspects of human behavior. The bedrock foundation of evolutionary neuropsychology is the assumption that functionally specialized brain regions are adaptations naturally selected in response to various environmental challenges over the course of billions of years of evolution. These adaptations and their brain regions and circuitry may now serve new functions, which are called exaptations, and they are particularly involved in higher cognitive functions.
650			_aNeuropsychology
650			_aBrain -- Evolution
650			_aEvolutionary psychology
942			_cBK
999			_c565175 _d565175