Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology
Open accessAbstract
Evolutionary Psychology (EP) views the human mind as organized into many modules, each underpinned by psychological adaptations designed to solve problems faced by our Pleistocene ancestors. We argue that the key tenets of the established EP paradigm require modification in the light of recent findings from a number of disciplines, including human genetics, evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and paleoecology. For instance, many human genes have been subject to recent selective sweeps; humans play an active, constructive role in co-directing their own development and evolution; and experimental evidence often favours a general process, rather than a modular account, of cognition. A redefined EP could use the theoretical insights of modern evolutionary biology as a rich source of hypotheses concerning the human mind, and could exploit novel methods from a variety of adjacent research fields.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
A science of change can occur only when the distinction between evolutionary psychology and the standard social science model is depolarized.
“Only when we depolarize the distinction between EP and the SSSM can a science of change occur (Bolhuis et al. 2011; Buller 2005; Scher & Rauscher 2002; Wilson 2002b).”
From Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change (2014) · cites this paper as Bolhuis et al. 2011
In “Towards a New Science of the Evolution of the Mind” (page unavailable), the paper calls for methodological and conceptual integration of evolutionary psychology with adjacent fields. Its Conclusions likewise advocate a broader, multidisciplinary approach. It does not say that depolarizing the distinction between EP and the standard social science model is the only way a science of change can occur. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThere is no 'intelligent', 'executive' or indeed 'Fodorian' bit of the brain that holds the key to cognitive evolution.
“As a corollary, there is no ‘intelligent’, ‘executive’ or indeed ‘Fodorian’ [130] bit of the brain that holds the key to cognitive evolution.”
From Embodied cognitive evolution and the cerebellum (2012) · cites this paper as [130]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Cites
The weirdest people in the world?
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x0999152x · Cited by 12,641 · see citing works
Rescorla, R. A. (1972) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 7,268 · see citing works
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Griesemer, J. R., Boyd, R. T., & Richerson, P. J. (1986) · Ornithological Applications · doi:10.2307/1367778 · Cited by 7,133 · see citing works
Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
West-Eberhard, M. J. (2003) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780195122343.001.0001 · Cited by 6,115 · see citing works
Model Selection and Multimodel Inference
(2003) · Technometrics · doi:10.1198/tech.2003.s146 · Cited by 5,505 · see citing works
Cummins, R., & Fodor, J. A. (1985) · The Philosophical Review · doi:10.2307/2184717 · Cited by 4,791 · see citing works
On aims and methods of ethology
Tinbergen, N. (1963) · Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1963.tb01161.x · Cited by 4,551 · see citing works
WEIRD languages have misled us, too
Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2010) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x1000018x · Cited by 4,169 · see citing works
Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila
Bateman, A. J. (1948) · Heredity · doi:10.1038/hdy.1948.21 · Cited by 3,643 · see citing works
The Psychological Foundations of Culture
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992) · The Adapted Mind · doi:10.1093/oso/9780195060232.003.0002 · Cited by 3,627 · see citing works
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Levinson, M. H. (2006) · ETC.: A Review of General Semantics · doi:10.66774/etc_6303_351 · Cited by 3,581 · see citing works
Endler, J. A. (1986) · Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) · Cited by 3,038 · see citing works
Genetic Structure of Human Populations
Rosenberg, N. A., Pritchard, J. K., Weber, J. L., Cann, H. M., Kídd, K. K., Анатольевич, Ж. Л., & Feldman, M. W. (2002) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1078311 · Cited by 3,000 · see citing works
A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
Voight, B. F., Kudaravalli, S., Wen, X., & Pritchard, J. K. (2006) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072 · Cited by 2,912 · see citing works
(2003) · Cited by 2,898 · see citing works
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2004) · doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226712130.001.0001 · Cited by 2,793 · see citing works
(1987) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 2,512 · see citing works
Henrich, J., & Gil-White, F. J. (2001) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(00)00071-4 · Cited by 2,500 · cited 1× · see citing works
“There is sufficient empirical evidence for the deployment of context biases, such as conformity or prestige bias, to render the casual dismissal of transmitted culture counterproductive [102,103].”
BackgroundCosmides, L. (1989) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(89)90023-1 · Cited by 2,471 · see citing works
The Psychology of Animal Learning
Hill, W. F., & Mackintosh, N. J. (1976) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1421765 · Cited by 2,397 · see citing works
Carey, S. E. (2000) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1037/e513702014-002 · Cited by 2,324 · see citing works
Matthei, E. H. (1984) · Language · doi:10.2307/413815 · Cited by 2,189 · see citing works
Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind
Sugiyama, L. (2001) · American Journal of Human Biology · doi:10.1002/1520-6300(200101/02)13:1 · Cited by 2,144 · see citing works
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations
The International HapMap Consortium, Sabeti, P. C., Varilly, P., Fry, B., Lohmueller, J., Hostetter, E., Cotsapas, C., Xie, X., Byrne, E. H., McCarroll, S. A., et al. (2007) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature06250 · Cited by 2,131 · see citing works
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
Buss, D. M. (1998) · Cited by 1,928 · see citing works
The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism
Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (2000) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x0000337x · Cited by 1,822 · see citing works
The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations
Kingsolver, J. G., Hoekstra, H. E., Hoekstra, J. M., Berrigan, D. A., VIGNIERI, S. N., Hill, C. E., Hoang, A., Gibert, P., & Beerli, P. (2001) · The American Naturalist · doi:10.1086/319193 · Cited by 1,806 · see citing works
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1990) · Ethology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1016/0162-3095(90)90017-z · Cited by 1,787 · see citing works
Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach
Ballonoff, P. A. (1985) · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · doi:10.1016/0167-2681(85)90017-4 · Cited by 1,717 · see citing works
Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe
Tishkoff, S. A., Reed, F. A., Ranciaro, A., Voight, B. F., Babbitt, C. C., Silverman, J. S., Powell, K., Mortensen, H. M., Hirbo, J. B., Osman, M., et al. (2007) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng1946 · Cited by 1,615 · see citing works
Schoen, D. J., & Endler, J. A. (1987) · Taxon · doi:10.2307/1221470 · Cited by 1,575 · see citing works
Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation
Perry, G. H., Dominy, N. J., Claw, K. G., Lee, A. S., Fiegler, H., Redon, R., Werner, J., Villanea, F. A., Mountain, J. L., Misra, R., et al. (2007) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng2123 · Cited by 1,467 · see citing works
(2001) · Cited by 1,278 · see citing works
Blackwell, A. D. (2014) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.185702 · Cited by 1,261 · see citing works
The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences
Henrich, J., & Boyd, R. T. (1998) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(98)00018-x · Cited by 1,251 · see citing works
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Miller, N., Oldham, G., & Pinker, S. (1994) · The Antioch Review · doi:10.2307/4613021 · Cited by 1,219 · see citing works
Positive Natural Selection in the Human Lineage
Sabeti, P. C., Schaffner, S. F., Fry, B., Lohmueller, J., Varilly, P., Shamovsky, O., Palma, A., Mikkelsen, T. S., Altshuler, D., & Lander, E. S. (2006) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1124309 · Cited by 1,157 · see citing works
Principles of brain evolution.
Striedter, G. (2005) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.42-5260 · Cited by 1,124 · see citing works
CULTURE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (1985) · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · Cited by 1,085 · see citing works
Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years
Loulergue, L., Schilt, A., Spahni, R., Masson‐Delmotte, V., Blunier, T., Lemieux-Dudon, B., Barnola, J.-M., Raynaud, D., Stocker, T. F., & Chappellaz, J. (2008) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature06950 · Cited by 1,072 · see citing works
A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behavior
Lehrman, D. S. (1953) · The Quarterly Review of Biology · doi:10.1086/399858 · Cited by 1,064 · see citing works
Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
Campbell, B. (2017) · doi:10.4324/9781315129266-7 · Cited by 1,051 · see citing works
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1990) · Journal of Personality · doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00907.x · Cited by 1,005 · see citing works
Contemporary Animal Learning Theory.
Abrahamson, D. (1981) · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · Cited by 945 · see citing works
Model selection and multi-model inference
Liddle, A. R., Mukherjee, P., & Parkinson, D. (2009) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511802461.005 · Cited by 907 · see citing works
Contemporary Animal Learning Theory
LoLordo, V. M., & Dickinson, A. (1982) · The American Journal of Psychology · doi:10.2307/1422669 · Cited by 891 · see citing works
The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals.
Nettle, D. (2006) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.61.6.622 · Cited by 885 · see citing works
How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together
Laland, K. N., Odling‐Smee, J., & Myles, S. (2010) · Nature Reviews Genetics · doi:10.1038/nrg2734 · Cited by 868 · see citing works
Self-citationCultural transmission and evolution
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (1981) · Cited by 840 · see citing works
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know?
Norenzayan, A., & Heine, S. J. (2005) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.131.5.763 · Cited by 820 · see citing works
Four Climate Cycles of Recurring Deep and Surface Water Destabilizations on the Iberian Margin
Martrat, B., Grimalt, J. O., Shackleton, N. J., de Abreu, L., Hutterli, M. A., & Stocker, T. F. (2007) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1139994 · Cited by 725 · see citing works
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations
Pickrell, J. K., Coop, G., Novembre, J., Kudaravalli, S., Li, J. Z., Absher, D., Srinivasan, B. S., Barsh, G. S., Myers, R. M., Feldman, M. W., et al. (2009) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.087577.108 · Cited by 717 · see citing works
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process.
Jeffery, C. R., Lumsden, C. J., & Wilson, E. O. (1982) · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · doi:10.2307/2067089 · Cited by 712 · see citing works
Alas, poor Darwin : arguments against evolutionary psychology
Rose, H. A., & Rose, S. (2000) · Cited by 710 · see citing works
Genetic traces of ancient demography
Harpending, H. C., Batzer, M. A., Gurven, M., Jorde, L. B., Rogers, A. R., & Sherry, S. T. (1998) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.95.4.1961 · Cited by 675 · see citing works
Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2015) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9780470939376.ch1 · Cited by 648 · see citing works
Buss, D. M. (1995) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1863-1 · Cited by 636 · see citing works
Benton, M. J. (2005) · Journal of Clinical Investigation · doi:10.1172/jci27017 · Cited by 616 · see citing works
The evolutionary genetics of personality
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1002/per.629 · Cited by 610 · see citing works
Nisbett, R. E. (2003) · Cited by 601 · see citing works
Odling-Smee, F. J., Laland, K. N., & Feldman, M. W. (2013) · Princeton University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9781400847266 · Cited by 589 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
Itan, Y., Powell, A., Beaumont, M. A., Burger, J., & Thomas, M. G. (2009) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000491 · Cited by 569 · see citing works
Analyzing adaptive strategies: Human behavioral ecology at twenty-five
Winterhalder, B. P., & Smith, E. A. (2000) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(2000)9:2 · Cited by 565 · see citing works
McCorduck, P. (1979) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 510 · see citing works
Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome.
Williamson, S. H., Hubisz, M. J., Clark, A. G., Payseur, B. A., Bustamante, C. D., & Nielsen, R. (2007) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030090 · Cited by 507 · see citing works
The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence
Reader, S. M., Hager, Y., & Laland, K. N. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0342 · Cited by 496 · see citing works
Self-citationGottlieb, G. (1998) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.105.4.792-802 · Cited by 489 · see citing works
NOT BY GENES ALONE: HOW CULTURE TRANSFORMED HUMAN EVOLUTION
Richerson, P. J. 1., & Boyd, R. 1. (2005) · Cited by 485 · see citing works
How Can Evolutionary Psychology Successfully Explain Personality and Individual Differences?
Buss, D. M. (2009) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01138.x · Cited by 483 · see citing works
Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations.
Confer, J. C., Easton, J. A., Fleischman, D. S., Goetz, C. D., Lewis, D. M. G., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D. M. (2010) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/a0018413 · Cited by 482 · see citing works
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
Hawks, J., Wang, E. T., Cochran, G. M., Harpending, H. C., & Moyzis, R. K. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0707650104 · Cited by 471 · see citing works
Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans
Bürger, J., Kirchner, M., Bramanti, B., Haak, W., & Thomas, M. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0607187104 · Cited by 447 · see citing works
Nativism versus neuroconstructivism: Rethinking the study of developmental disorders.
Karmiloff‐Smith, A. (2009) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0014506 · Cited by 438 · see citing works
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults
Holden, C., & Mace, R. (2009) · Human Biology · doi:10.3378/027.081.0609 · Cited by 437 · see citing works
The role of geography in human adaptation
Coop, G., Pickrell, J. K., Novembre, J., Kudaravalli, S., Li, J., Absher, D., Myers, R. M., Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Feldman, M. W., & Pritchard, J. K. (2009) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000500 · Cited by 412 · see citing works
McCorduck, P., & Cfe, C. (2004) · A K Peters/CRC Press eBooks · doi:10.1201/9780429258985 · Cited by 406 · see citing works
Adapting minds: evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature
(2005) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.43-1249 · Cited by 393 · see citing works
Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics
Richerson, P. J., Boyd, R., & Henrich, J. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0914631107 · Cited by 393 · see citing works
Gene-culture coevolutionary theory
Feldman, M. W., & Laland, K. N. (1996) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/0169-5347(96)10052-5 · Cited by 388 · see citing works
Self-citationHuman natures: genes, cultures, and the human prospect
(2001) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.38-4535 · Cited by 377 · see citing works
Evolutionary psychology: A Primer
Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1997) · Cited by 376 · see citing works
Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens
Wang, E. T., Kodama, G., Baldi, P., & Moyzis, R. K. (2005) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0509691102 · Cited by 367 · see citing works
Kokko, H., & Johnstone, R. A. (2002) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.0926 · Cited by 365 · see citing works
Mitochondrial sequences show diverse evolutionary histories of African hominoids
Gagneux, P., Wills, C. J., Gerloff, U., Tautz, D., Morin, P. A., Boesch, C., Fruth, B., Hohmann, G., Ryder, O. A., & Woodruff, D. S. (1999) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.96.9.5077 · Cited by 351 · see citing works
Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic
Richards, M. P., Schulting, R. J., & Hedges, R. E. M. (2003) · Nature · doi:10.1038/425366a · Cited by 322 · see citing works
Bateman's principles and human sex roles
Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N., & Mulder, M. B. (2009) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.005 · Cited by 295 · see citing works
Self-citationPredicting the direction of sexual selection
Kokko, H., & Monaghan, P. (2001) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00212.x · Cited by 293 · see citing works
Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence
Cosmides, L., Barrett, H. C., & Tooby, J. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0914623107 · Cited by 291 · see citing works
Li, S.-C. (2003) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.2.171 · Cited by 287 · see citing works
Human altruism: economic, neural, and evolutionary perspectives
Fehr, E., & Rockenbach, B. (2004) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/j.conb.2004.10.007 · Cited by 284 · see citing works
Cultural and biological evolutionary processes, selection for a trait under complex transmission
Feldman, M. W., & Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (1976) · Theoretical Population Biology · doi:10.1016/0040-5809(76)90047-2 · Cited by 283 · see citing works
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Richardson, R. C. (2007) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/7464.001.0001 · Cited by 273 · see citing works
Self-citationNiche construction, human behavior, and the adaptive-lag hypothesis
Laland, K. N., & Brown, G. R. (2006) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.20093 · Cited by 272 · see citing works
Self-citationCultural variation in Africa: role of mechanisms of transmission and adaptation.
Guglielmino, C. R., Viganotti, C., Hewlett, B. L., & Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (1995) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.92.16.7585 · Cited by 249 · see citing works
The adaptive legacy of human evolution: A search for the environment of evolutionary adaptedness
Foley, R. (1995) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.1360040603 · Cited by 222 · see citing works
Short Arms and Talking Eggs: Why We Should No Longer Abide the Nativist–Empiricist Debate
Spencer, J. P., BLUMBERG, M. S., McMurray, B., Robinson, S. R., Samuelson, L. K., & Tomblin, J. B. (2009) · Child Development Perspectives · doi:10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00081.x · Cited by 213 · see citing works
TARGET ARTICLE: Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Variation: Evoked Culture and Mate Preferences
Gangestad, S., Haselton, M., & Buss, D. (2006) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1207/s15327965pli1702_1 · Cited by 203 · see citing works
Evidence for Widespread Degradation of Gene Control Regions in Hominid Genomes
Keightley, P. D., Lercher, M. J., & Eyre‐Walker, A. (2005) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030042 · Cited by 198 · see citing works
Carpenter, W. T., & Conley, R. R. (1999) · Schizophrenia Research · doi:10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00128-5 · Cited by 181 · see citing works
The Evolution of Domain-General Mechanisms in Intelligence and Learning
Chiappe, D. L., & MacDonald, K. B. (2005) · The Journal of General Psychology · doi:10.3200/genp.132.1.5-40 · Cited by 181 · see citing works
A critique of the neuroecology of learning and memory
Bolhuis, J. J., & Macphail, E. M. (2001) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01753-8 · Cited by 176 · see citing works
Self-citationEvolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
Duchaine, B. (2006) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/2882.001.0001 · Cited by 169 · see citing works
Human uniqueness: genome interactions with environment, behaviour and culture
Varki, A. P., Geschwind, D. H., & Eichler, E. E. (2008) · Nature Reviews Genetics · doi:10.1038/nrg2428 · Cited by 168 · see citing works
Evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology
(2008) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.45-7075 · Cited by 167 · see citing works
The complete world of human evolution
(2005) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.43-0409 · Cited by 162 · see citing works
Developmental-behavioral initiation of evolutionary change.
Gottlieb, G. (2002) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.109.2.211 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
The evolution of intelligence: adaptive specializations versus general process
Macphail, E. M., & Bolhuis, J. J. (2001) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1017/s146479310100570x · Cited by 143 · see citing works
Self-citationCan evolution explain how minds work?
Bolhuis, J. J., & Wynne, C. D. L. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/458832a · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Self-citationLaland, K. N. (2008) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0132 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Self-citationGENES, MIND, AND CULTURE: THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
Lumsden, C. J. 1., & Wilson, E. O. (1981) · doi:10.1142/5786#t=toc · Cited by 130 · see citing works
Lewin, R. A., & Foley, R. (1997) · Cited by 128 · see citing works
ANCIENT URBANIZATION PREDICTS GENETIC RESISTANCE TO TUBERCULOSIS
Barnes, I., Duda, A., Pybus, O. G., & Thomas, M. (2010) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01132.x · Cited by 128 · see citing works
Marlowe, F. W. (1995) · Ethology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1016/0162-3095(95)90014-4 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
Feldman, M. W., & Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. (1989) · Princeton University Press eBooks · doi:10.1515/9781400859832-009 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity
Brown, G. R., Dickins, T. E., Sear, R., & Laland, K. N. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0267 · Cited by 105 · see citing works
Self-citationThe imagined world made real: towards a natural science of culture
(2003) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.41-1629 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Environmental and Behavioral Influences on Gene Activity
Gottlieb, G. (2000) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00068 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
Stoll, C. G. (2004) · Annales de Génétique · doi:10.1016/j.anngen.2004.02.002 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Rupp, H. A., James, T. W., Ketterson, E. D., Sengelaub, D. R., Janssen, E., & Heiman, J. R. (2009) · Hormones and Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.005 · Cited by 68 · see citing works
The Grain of Domains: The Evolutionary‐Psychological Case Against Domain‐General Cognition
Atkinson, A. P., & Wheeler, M. (2004) · Mind & Language · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.2004.00252.x · Cited by 68 · see citing works
Mobile elements reveal small population size in the ancient ancestors of Homo sapiens
Huff, C. D., Xing, J., Rogers, A. R., Witherspoon, D. J., & Jorde, L. B. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0909000107 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Kumm, J., Laland, K. N., & Feldman, M. W. (1994) · Theoretical Population Biology · doi:10.1006/tpbi.1994.1027 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Self-citationCOMMENTARY: Evolutionary Psychology: A View From Evolutionary Biology
Lloyd, E. A., & Feldman, M. W. (2002) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1207/s15327965pli1302_04 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Positive and Negative Correlates of Feeding Innovations in Birds: Evidence for Limited Modularity
Lefebvre, L., & Bolhuis, J. J. (2003) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198526223.003.0002 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Self-citationFour Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology
Buller, D. J. (2009) · Scientific American · doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0109-74 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Evolutionary Psychology and the Challenge of Adaptive Explanation
Sterelny, K., & Fitness, J. (2004) · Psychology Press eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203484708-16 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Are Food Avoidances Maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire?
Aunger, R. (1994) · Journal of Anthropological Research · doi:10.1086/jar.50.3.3630180 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology
Verhulst, S. (2009) · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Krill, A. L., Platek, S. M., Goetz, A. T., & Shackelford, T. K. (2007) · Evolutionary Psychology · doi:10.1177/147470490700500114 · Cited by 33 · see citing works
Roberts, M. (2007) · Routledge eBooks · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Function and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues
Bolhuis, J. J. (2005) · Animal Biology · doi:10.1163/157075605774840987 · Cited by 29 · see citing works
Self-citationThe Future of Evolutionary Psychology
Buss, D. M. (1995) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0601_16 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Function and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues
Bolhuis, J. J. (2009) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511619991.011 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Self-citationBolhuis, J. J. (2005) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1115209 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Self-citationPiling On the Selection Pressure
Bolhuis, J. J. (2008) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1157403 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Self-citation
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 4
- [10]Fodor J. A 2000 The mind doesn't work that way. Cambridge, MA MIT Press
- [54]Plomin R DeFries J. C McClearn G. E McGuffin P 2000 Behavioral Genetics.Fourth edition. New York Worth Publishers
- [61]Sperber D 1994 Understanding verbal understanding. Khalfa J What is intelligence? Cambridge Cambridge University Press 179 198
- [101]Reader S. M Laland K. N 2003 Animal innovation. Oxford Oxford University Press
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Richerson, P., Baldini, R., Bell, A. V., Demps, K., Frost, K., Hillis, V., Mathew, S., Newton, E. K., Naar, N., Newson, L., et al. (2016) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x1400106x · Cited by 639 · see citing works
Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction
Laland, K. N., & O’Brien, M. J. (2011) · Biological Theory · doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0026-6 · Cited by 312 · see citing works
Self-citationEvolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change
Wilson, D. S., Hayes, S. C., Biglan, A., & Embry, D. D. (2014) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x13001593 · Cited by 255 · see citing works
Embodied cognitive evolution and the cerebellum
Barton, R. A. (2012) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0112 · Cited by 210 · see citing works
Motivational and evolutionary aspects of a physical exercise training program: a longitudinal study
Rosa, J. P. P., de Souza, A. A. L., de Lima, G. H. O., Rodrigues, D. F., de Aquino Lemos, V., da Silva Alves, E., Tufik, S., & de Mello, M. T. (2015) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00648 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
- Authors
- Bolhuis, J. J., Brown, G. R., Richardson, R. C., & Laland, K. N.
- Affiliations
- Utrecht University (NL)
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- University of Cincinnati (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bolhuis, Johan J.
- Laland, Kevin N.
- Venue
- PLoS Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2011-07-19
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e1001109
- ISSN
- 1544-9173 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-7885
- PMC
- PMC3139638
- OpenAlex
- W1993241390
- Cited by
- 242
- References
- 136
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 2.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- University of Cincinnati
- Wellcome Trust
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/D015812/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- evolutionary psychology, modularity of mind, psychological adjustment, human genetics, cognitive neuroscience, paleoecology, human evolution, Darwinian theory
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Animals, Cognition, Biological Evolution, Humans, Psychology
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
