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Title: Evolution and Human Nature: Comparing Honors and Traditional Pedagogies for the New Science of the Mind (Research Essays) (Essay)
Author : Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 225 KB

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A class on evolutionary psychology can take many forms but always involves an interdisciplinary approach because of the subject matter and topics covered. In this paper, we describe and compare three different pedagogical techniques we have used to teach the topic of evolutionary psychology; two are honors seminars and one a traditional lecture-style course. Very roughly, evolutionary psychology is the study of the human mind as a product of evolutionary forces. Proponents argue that our understanding of the human mind should be guided by the very same biological consideration that guides our understanding of human physiology, namely, that a great many of our extant traits are in fact solutions to recurrent adaptive problems that confronted our hominid ancestors tens of thousands of years ago (see Buss, 2005; 2007). "Our modern skulls," as Cosmides and Tooby (1997) note, "house a stone-age mind."