Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Contributors: Bruce H. Weber (Editor); David J. Depew (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: July 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780262232296
Subjects: Evolution; Cognitive Psychology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Physiological Psychology; Baldwin, James Mark; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Genetic Psychology; Learning (Psychology); Psychology; 1861-1934; Baldwin, James Mark,; Evolutionary psychology; Learning, Psychology of
First sentence: In recent years, a number of evolutionary theorists have spoken well of a turn-of-the-twentieth-century idea that since the nineteen fifties has gone by the name of "the Baldwin effect" (Hinton and Nowlan 1987; Dennett 1995; Deacon 1997).