Origin of the Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition and General Intelligence

Geary (psychological sciences, U. of Missouri) argues that all evolutionary natural selection leads to an "arms race" within or between species in which individuals seek competitive advantage and ecological dominance. In humans, he argues, success in this "motivation to control" depends on "modular brain and cognitive systems in the domains of folk psychology, folk biology, and folk physics and on affective, conscious-psychological, and executive cognitive systems." He argues that core social dy…