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4. Emotional Flexibility and the Evolution of Bioculture

© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition 1
  4. 1. Why a New Paradigm? 21
  5. 2. Biological Aboutness: REASSESSING TELEOLOGY 43
  6. 3. Social Intelligence from the Ground Up 74
  7. 4. Emotional Flexibility and the Evolution of Bioculture 91
  8. 5. The Ontogeny of Social Intelligence 122
  9. 6. Representation and Imagination 153
  10. 7. Language and Concepts 184
  11. 8. Affect in Cultural Evolution: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION 204
  12. 9. Religion, Mythology, and Art 264
  13. Notes 317
  14. References 365
  15. Acknowledgments 413
  16. Index 417
The Emotional Mind
This chapter is in the book The Emotional Mind
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674238916-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition 1
  4. 1. Why a New Paradigm? 21
  5. 2. Biological Aboutness: REASSESSING TELEOLOGY 43
  6. 3. Social Intelligence from the Ground Up 74
  7. 4. Emotional Flexibility and the Evolution of Bioculture 91
  8. 5. The Ontogeny of Social Intelligence 122
  9. 6. Representation and Imagination 153
  10. 7. Language and Concepts 184
  11. 8. Affect in Cultural Evolution: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION 204
  12. 9. Religion, Mythology, and Art 264
  13. Notes 317
  14. References 365
  15. Acknowledgments 413
  16. Index 417
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