Comment - Why g is not an adaptation: A comment on Kanazawa (2004)

Psychological Review

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 433-437

  Borsboom, Denny ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; General intelligence; Latent variable theory; Module; Positive manifold

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744525959     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.433     Document Type: Review

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