The Adapted Mind

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The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

Cover of the first edition
Editors	Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby
Language	English
Subject	Evolutionary psychology
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1992 (1992)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	666 (1995 edition)
ISBN	978-0195101072

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture is a 1992 book edited by the anthropologists Jerome H. Barkow and John Tooby and the psychologist Leda Cosmides.^[1] First published by Oxford University Press, it is widely considered the foundational text of evolutionary psychology (EP), and outlines Cosmides and Tooby's integration of concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as many other concepts that would become important in adaptationist research.