Beyond Evolutionary Psychology

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'The work is a tour de force in the area of culture, evolution, psychology and emotion, and in short is brilliant. Ellis and Solms have synthesized and integrated large, disparate areas of scholarship and have developed an insightful and amazingly thought-provoking theoretical framework that is entirely new. I especially liked the focus on language, as tackling the potential innateness versus learned aspect of it is persuasive and strategically sound.' David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University 'This is a fascinating and timely book that emerges as lively debates are taking place. Ellis and Solms's highly novel and empirically grounded theorizing about the development of language and cognition has broader implications for facile popular notions such as a 'triune brain' or evolutionary-based intuitionist accounts of the role of emotion in morality and everyday cognition.' Larry Nucci, University of California, Berkeley 'George Ellis and Mark Solms's book is one of the more forceful, sustained explanations of the origins of the cognitive accomplishments of Homo sapiens available. They offer a more balanced and scientific understanding of human cognitive evolution than either the radical nativism of Evolutionary Psychology or Chomskyan linguistics. All cognitive scientists, anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers should have this book on their shelves.' Daniel Everett, Bentley University, Massachusetts, and author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, Language: The Cultural Tool, Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious, and How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention 'Beyond Evolutionary Psychology is a rich book, jam-packed with impressive detail ...' Lachlan Douglas Walmsley, The Quarterly Review of Biology