DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

On Hasty Generalization About Evolutionary Psychology

Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
By David J. Buller. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 552 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $18.95.

Cognitive science is undergoing a paradigm shift. The logic of evolutionary biology is beginning to inform the effort to characterize the human cognitive architecture. The only process in nature capable of producing functionally organized structure is natural selection, so it stands to reason that principles of natural selection should be brought to bear on issues in cognitive science because the brain and body constitute an organized system built by the same process as all systems in nature.