Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation

Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Dellarosa Cummins, Denise ^a   Cummins, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Development; Evolutionary psychology; Innate; Modules; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032726118     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00062-1     Document Type: Article

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